The shape is like that of Cypraea boivinii, the teeth
are different. Cypraea gangranosa I think is not so
cylindrical.
Helmut

 --- Peter Egerton <[log in to unmask]> schrieb: >
Patty,
>
> I'd say it's more like gangranosa. The dorsum
> looks much like my specimens, but the dark
> posterior and anterior blotches aren't quite
> the same. Maybe someone out there could
> describe to us the differences between
> boivinii and gangranosa. Both are really
> variable in shape and pattern as far as I've
> seen.
>
> Peter Egerton
>
>
> At 09:08 AM 6/26/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >In the coloration and spotting it looks like
> >Cypraea boivinii.
> >with best shelling greetings
> >Helmut
> >
> > --- Patty Jansen <[log in to unmask]>
> schrieb: >
> >Dear all,
> >>
> >> I have a cowrie that defies identification. I've
> >> been all over Lorenz &
> >> Hubert, but I do not know what it is. Ross Mayhew
> >> has been so kind to put
> >> it up on the Conch-l identification site
> >> http://www.geocities.com/conchlimages/. There was
> >> one more image he didn't
> >> put up, showing the side of the shell. It shows
> >> clearly that the margin is
> >> slightly pitted, so I suppose it's in the
> Erosaria
> >> group. It also has a
> >> rather low dorsum, like errones, not like C. lynx
> >> which it resembles
> >> somewhat in the photograph. The shell is from
> Sagami
> >> Bay in Japan
> >>
> >> Patty
> >>
> >> Dr. Patty Jansen
> >>
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> >>
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