Cypraea


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Noun1.Cypraea - type genus of the family Cypraeidae: the typical cowries
genus Cypraea
mollusk genus - a genus of mollusks
Cypraeidae, family Cypraeidae - family of marine gastropods comprising the cowries
cowrie, cowry - any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
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annulus, known as the gold ring cowrie, is a small Cypraea type and belongs to the Cypraeidae family [32,33].
Phenetic Relationship Study of Gold Ring Cowry, Cypraea Annulus (Gastropods: Cypraeidae) in Mollucas Islands Based on Shell Morphological
Tiger cowry, Cypraea tigris, Lambis lambis, Strombus spp.
Biodiversity of marine gastropods along the Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, west coast of India
Gray, 1825) Luria lurida (Linnaeus, 1758) Cypraea tigris (Linnaeus, 1758) Ficus gracilis (G.
Checklist of benthic marine macrophytes and macrofauna from Uran coast, Navi Mumbai, off the Arabian Sea
Basmayor also keeps a single specimen of the smallest cypraea seashell, which measures about 2 centimeters.
He saves seashells by the seashore
From gastropod inhabit among/under intertidal rocks: Diodora, Trochus, Planaxis, Cronia, Lunella, Nerita, Cerithium, Cypraea and Hexaplex.
Distribution of Intertidal Molluscs along Tarut Island Coast, Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia
The first contains only one bead, which is the shell of Cypraea moneta (or 'money cowrie', named after the use of this shell as money since ancient times).
Raman spectroscopy of ancient beads from Devin Castle near Bratislava and of four intaglios from other archaeological finds in Slovakia
This relationship has been documented at the geographic microscale in the barnacles Semibalanus balanoides (Bertness, 1989) and Jehlius cirratus (Lopez et al., 2007, 2014), where crowded barnacles showed thinner shell or cirral appendages compared with solitary barnacles; and in the gastropod Cypraea annulus (Irie, 2006), where juvenile shell size and callus thickness decreased with increasing density.
Geographical variation of shell thickness in the mussel Perumytilus purpuratus along the Southeast Pacific Coast
b) pure (Cypraea caputdraconis): snails larger than the pipi.
Actividades pesqueras realizadas en la antiguedad en la Isla de Pascua
Notes on two endemic South African Cypraea. Veliger 15: 125-126.
Richard ('Dick') Neil Kilburn (1942-2013): bibliography and listings of new taxa named by him and in his honour
(Agassiz, 1836), cowries (Cypraea Linnaeus, 1758), brittle stars (Ophiocoma L.
Investigating the translocation and seeding of wild Haliotis mariae wood, 1828, in the Sultanate of Oman

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