For any interested in Hawaiian cowries: After a recent 'tour' of cowry-related Internet sites, I became aware that there was little real information about the schilderorum/sulcidentata half-breed cowries. They've been around for decades, at least. The shell dealers were glad to sell any that they got their hands on for US$50. However, cowry 'experts' avoided them like the plague! For the sake of clarity, I've created a web page which shows plenty of shells' apertures so that the curious person can see what these 'in-between' shells look like. It is at http://www.cowrys.org/research/xbreeds.htm Aloha, Bob Dayle (a.k.a makuabob) http://www.cowrys.org _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail