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....30553...(1)...Cypraea achatidea Sowerby, 1837....38 mm. F+++. With dorsums well mottled in cinnamon brown on creamy tan...Senegal...SPECIAL!!...$18 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea albuginosa Gray, 1825....26 mm. F++. West Mexico. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36577...(1)...Cypraea alfredensis alfredensis Shaw, 1909....22.5 mm. Gem. Spectacular fresh specimen, with lines of fine brown speckles across a blue-gray dorsum...South Africa...$90 (1 available)
....36578...(1)...Cypraea alfredensis alfredensis Shaw, 1909....22.8 mm. F++. Unusual example has gray dorsum without speckles or brown blotch...South Africa...$95 (1 available)
....36579...(1)...Cypraea alfredensis alfredensis Shaw, 1909....21 mm. Gem-. This one has well developed lip & a big, brown blotch on the blue-gray dorsum...South Africa...$125 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea algoensis algoensis Grey, 1825....27 mm. Gem-. South Africa. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38922...(2)...Cypraea annettae Dall. 1909....43, 46 mm. F++. Jumbo specimens with brown mottled backs, gray spotted margins & tan bases...West Mexico...$11 (2 available)
....38923...(3)...Cypraea annettae Dall. 1909....41 to 42 mm. F++. Large lovely examples...West Mexico...$8 (3 available)
....38924...(6)...Cypraea annettae Dall. 1909....37 to 39 mm. F++. Nice bargain examples...West Mexico...$5 (6 available)
....37827...(9)...Cypraea annettae Dall, 1909....30 to 33 mm. F++. I wonder if there is a C. frankiavaloni? And if you get that, you’re probably older than you let on!...West Mexico...$6 (9 available)
SOLD....Cypraea annettae Dall, 1909....31 mm. F+ high. Mexico. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....37480...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....28 mm. F+. Freak callus on the anterior end gives a "fishtail" effect...Tanzania...$7 (1 available)
....7746...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758...19 mm. Gem. FREAK! Not really sure how to describe this one: Lorenz reportedly called it a form of melanism, but it is not dark. It has a creamy overcasting, with a light orange stripe down the center, and no ring. DEFINITELY different...Australia...$19 (1 available)
....20628...(3sets)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758...18 to 25 mm. F++ to Gem. 4 piece sets show a variety of features (size, banding, ring strength & colour)...Transkei...$6 (3 sets available)
....20629...(6)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....21 to 25 mm. F++ to Gem. Singles of this heavy based East African form...Transkei...$2 (6 available)
....36271...(1set)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....17 to 18 mm. F++. Odd & unusual trio of injury freaks, one so deformed it looks like Columbellidae!...Philippines....$15 (1 set available)
....19912...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....11.5 mm. F++. Doll-sized ring!!..Zanzibar...$12 (1 available)
....19972...(1pr)...Cypraea annulus (dorsum) Linne, 1758 (ventrum)....25 & 26 mm. F++. SUPERFREAK pair! One is the famous "fish-tailed" annulus, while the other is a good variation of it, with thicker callous....Zanzibar...$45 (1 pair available)
....32551...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....22 mm. F++. Unusual colour form, with orange ringed pinkish tan dorsum...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....32552...(5)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....20 to 24 mm. F++. Albino specimens, creamy white with blue-white dorsum and no ring...Philippines...$10 (5 available)
....27728...(1set)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758...13 to 25 mm. F++. 10 piece freak set. More different freaks than an old-time circus side-show tent! Hunchbacks, fat ladies & dwarves, Oh my!...Philippines...$100 new price (1 sets available)
....29341...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....14 mm. F++. Fascinating freakish dwarf, in pastel orange pink, & with dorsum humped relatively higher than mauritiana...Philippines...$22 (1 available)
....27508...(1pr)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....20 & 22 mm. F++. NICE pair of interesting Bluish-white albinistic beasties without the gold ring...one quite blue the other much creamier...New Caledonia...$25 (1 pair available)
....2956...(5)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....23-25 mm. F++. Mild-mannered freaks, for mild money - Rostratism on a budget!!...Zanzibar...$7 (5 available)
....18548...(1pr)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....20 to 24 mm. F++/G. One normal (with blueish dorsum) the other "albino" with orange ring on a cream coloured back...Sri Lanka...$10 (1 pair available)
....19943...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....11.8 mm. F++. Smaller than your average ring-cowrie...Zanzibar...$5 (1 available)
....33392...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....16.5 mm. F++. Rostrate dwarf specimen with beaked ends...Tanzania...$30 new price (1 available)
....34775...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....22 mm. F+. Highly unusual all creamy yellow colour form. ID by supplier...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....33391...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....17.5 mm. F+. Highly rostrate dwarfish little freak specimen with tips so stretched they are beaked...Tanzania...$75 (1 available)
....27727...(3)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....14 to 19 mm. F+ high. Distinctly ROSTRATE dwarfs!...Philippines...$35 (3 available)
....32821...(1pr)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....19, 21 mm. Odd pair of injury freak forms. One oddly humped, the other with apex & shape similar to Cryptospira in Marginellidae...Philippines...$12 (1 pair available)
....30728...(1)...Cypraea annulus....22.5 mm. F+. Freak, with monstrous lateral bulge...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....29340...(1)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....19 mm. F+. Bizarre & unique freak, without posterior canal & with exposed apex, giving it a strong similarity to some Marginellidae...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....20215...(2)...Cypraea annulus Linne, 1758....14 mm. F+. Interesting juveniles (ID by mantle) shows shell before development of teeth & dorsal ring...Indonesia...$3 for both (2 available)
....30726...(1set)...Cypraea annulus/moneta freaks....14 to 22 mm. F/F+. 5 piece set-more freaks than the Addams family! Interesting assortment of developmental freak forms...Philippines...$22 (1 set available)
NEW....39534...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....67 mm. F++. Totally classic patterned back and gray spotted callused margins...Somalia...$9 (1 available)
NEW....39425...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....20 mm. F++. Fascinating truly dwarf specimen, so dark & tiny it looks more like arabicula, but from the other side of the planet...Somalia...$35 (1 available)
....39164...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....78 mm. F++. Beautiful big arabica, nicely hump-backed and heavy, spotted basal callus...Philippines...$22 (1 available)
....38925...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....70.5 mm. F++. Nice large specimen of the nominate form...West Australia...$10 (1 available)
....38926...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....66 mm. F++. Good sized example with strong pattern & dense marginal spots...Queensland...$7 (1 available)
....38927...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....59 mm. F++. Nice, well developed specimen with heavy, callused base...Queensland...$5 (1 available)
....38929...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....35 to 37 mm. F++. Cute semi-dwarf specimens...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....38928...(1)...Cypraea arabica immanis Schilder & Schilder, 1939....78 mm. F+. Big beautiful example of the East African form, though with mild dorsal scar...Tanzania...$15 (1 available)
....24442...(1)...Cypraea cf arabica Linne, 1758....56 mm. F+++. Interesting pattern freak, with a different design on either side of the sulcus...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....30991...(2)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....59 to 61 mm. F+++. Dark, fully developed specimens...Philippines...$3 (2 available)
....29572...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....55 mm. F+++. Large, with great pattern & mature, heavy base...Djibouti...$4 (1 available)
....28732...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....42 mm. F++. Fascinating melanistic dwarf specimen, not severely involved with the forces of darkness, but well on its way!...Solomon Islands...$23 (1 available)
....32553...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....36 mm. F++. Odd little specimen, dwarfish & with hints of melanism...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....30307...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....52 mm. F++. Great specimen of the typical form...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....28081...(3)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....45 to 52 mm. F++. Good, very dark examples...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
....32613...(3)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....48 to 50 mm. F++. Unusually globose specimens from Palawan, with heavy, callus base & margins & big, blurred marginal spots...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
....32615...(3)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....41 to 45 mm. F++. Hey, Doc, don't Sneeze(y) at these nice dwarf specimens. That's all 7, folks!...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
....25836...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....52 mm. F++. Good sized example with solid, callused base...Tanzania...$4 (1 available)
....24600...(2)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....41 to 43 mm. F++. Strange little freaks, with bent or twisted appertures...Philippines...$6 (2 available)
....4786...(1)...Cypraea arabica L, 1758....55 mm. F++ solid. FREAK! - of the Squashed variety...Zanzibar...$10 (1 available)
....22192...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linneus, 1758....55 mm. F++. Freak! Nicely twisted: a good, solid freak...India...$25 (1 available)
....32614...(1pr)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....55 mm. F+, F++. Wonderfully extreme light & dark pair, one heavily marked & spotted in darkest brown, the other patterned in cinnamon red...Philippines...$7 (1 pair available)
....22887...(1)...Cypraea cf arabica Linne, 1758....50 mm. F++. NICE Freak! At least 30 degree twist to posterior end. Talk about leftist leanings! Also, has an unusually "open" pattern, similar to scurra...India...$17 (1 available)
....31999...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....44 mm. F+. Freak with skewed apperture & dorsal pattern disturbances...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....32618...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....43 mm. F+. Odd injury freak with corrugated & faintly banded dorsum...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....32617...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....42 mm. F+. STRANGELY melanistic, with chestnut brown dorsum & thick marginal callus so black it almost looks painted on...Philippines...$16 (1 available)
....22191...(1)...Cypraea arabica Linneus, 1758....41 mm. F+ high. ULTRAFREAK!!!!!! This is one of the strangest cowrie specimens I've ever seen: it almost appears to be tied in a knot!!...India...$100 new price (negotiable) (1 available)
....22957...(2)...Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. Cute fully formed adult dwarves...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....88.6 mm. F++. Tanzania. ......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea arabica Linne, 1758....81 mm. Gem. Tanzania. ......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea arabica asiatica fm. gibba Coen, 1949....57 mm. F++. Burma. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39220...(1)...Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1819....27 mm. F++. Great specimen of this dwarf specie with thickly callused base...Panama...$4 (1 available)
....31198...(5)...Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1819....26 to 28 mm. F+++. Beautifully brown speckled backs & creamy bases...Peru...$4 (5 available)
....32094...(6prs)...Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1811....24 to 26 mm. F++. Lovely little fully adult specimens. with pale, broad bases & dark mottled dorsums (dorsi?)...Panama...$5 (6 pairs available)
SOLD....Cypraea arabicula Lamarck, 1819....33 mm. West Panama. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38930...(4)...Cypraea argus Linne, 1758....76 to 79 mm. F++. Good sized specimens with classic spotted patterns...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....29845...(1)...Cypraea argus Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. Good sized example with slightly banded dorsum & well spotted base...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....5905....(1)...Cypraea argus Linne, 1758....61 mm. F+ . ULTRA-TWISTED freak - from an injury that obviously nearly killed the critter: a real survivor!!...Indonesia..$10 (1 available)
....37652...(1)...Cypraea argus contrastriata Perry, 1811....89 mm. F++. Great, BIG example with lots of "rings" & the underlying brown bands from which it gets the form name...Tanzania...$40 (1 available)
....37653...(1pr)....Cypraea argus contrastriata Perry, 1811....79 & 83 mm. F++. Interesting pattern pair, both nice & large but with different ring pattern density & slightly different shapes...Tanzania...$45 (1 pairavailable)
SOLD....Cypraea argus L, 1758....65 & 67 mm F+++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
NEW....39573...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....107 mm. Gem. Glorious giant specimen! Huge and immaculate, with big orange dorsal spot and nicely extended tips. Perhaps our best ever!...Australia...$495 (1 available)
NEW....39432...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....101 mm. F+ high. BIG, spectacular, fully developed specimen, the only flaw is a tiny chip from the anterior lip tip...Australia...$295 (1 available)
NEW....39433...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....78 mm. F++. Glorious, well inflated, smaller yet fully adult example, with dorsal tan blotches & brown spots & orange basal callus...Australia...$155 (1 available)
....39136...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....105 mm. Gem-. Absolutely spectacular giant specimen, with perfect, well extended tips & brown flecked apricot-tan pattern. One tiny pit you can more feel than see is the only flaw I could find in a couple minutes of hunting...Australia...$300 (1 available)
....39137...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....101 mm. F++. Beautiful big example, well patterned & developed , though with a few sand grains in the ventral nacre...Australia...$275 (1 available)
....36575...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca Verco, 1912....105 mm. F++. Spectacular super-sized specimen of this beautiful pastel orange suffused & tan flecked rarity...Australia...$350
NEW....39574...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca fm. westralica Raybaudi, 1980....90 mm. Gem-. The brown speckled colour form with rich apricot orange base. Just a few tiny dimples on the base. Could even be form brunnea Raybaudi 1993...Australia...$295 (1 available)
....36594...(1)...Cypraea armeniaca westralica Raybaudi, 1980....82 mm. F++. Great specimen of this form, darker & more boldly spotted & patterned than the nominate species...Australia...$255 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea armeniaca fm. westralica Raybaudi, 1980....92 mm. F++. Australia. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea asellus Linne, 1758....22.3 mm. Gem. Philippines. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
Cypraea aurantium Gmelin is a tricky species to get high quality specimens of. Many of these are exemplary!!
....37630...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....98.5 mm. F++. Jumbo specimen with massive, well developed & lightly "bronzed" basal callus...Philippines...$175 (1 available)
....37403...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1798....86 mm. F+. Bargain example. Advanced adolescent with all teeth but lacking much of the basal callus. Fresh, dark dorsal display, though!...Philippines...$85 (1 available)
....36490...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....92.5 mm. F+high. Beautiful, fresh, dark orange specimen with fully developed base & perfect tips, just one growth line on the labral side...Philippines...$135 (1 available)
....37124...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....96 mm. F+. Highly unusual intense purple colour on the basal callus, but a few small blemishes on the dorsum...Philippines...$155 (1 available)
....37123...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....95 mm. F++. Beautiful big example, dark & with good basal callus...Philippines...$140 (1 available)
....37125...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....93.5 mm. F+. Interesting example with intense purple basal callus. Dorsum has a cleanly healed injury...Philippines...$125 (1 available)
....31152...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....91 mm. F++ solid. Rich orange, fully mature & practically perfect example. Slight spalling of posterior callus in no way detracts (heck, it took me a couple of minutes to even find it!)...Philippines...$135 (1 available)
....36491...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....90 mm. F+. Pretty bargain specimen, very slightly sub-adult, with all teeth, but lacking full adult callus formation on the base & ends...Philippines...$85 (1 available)
....30129...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1798....88 mm. F++. Solid & heavy, with rich orange colour. Nice dark specimen of this perennial favorite...Philippines...$125 (1 available)
NOTE: The sight of so many nice aurantium all in a row is almost enough to make one's head spin!!
....37128...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....84.5 mm. F++. Great, solidly mature specimen with typically pale & heavy base...Philippines...$85 (1 available)
....28616...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....85 mm. F++ nicely. With nice, clean dorsums & well developed teeth & base...Philippines...$100 new price (1 available)
....31375...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....98 mm. F++. Fresh, large & solidly mature specimens...Philippines...$160 (1 available)
....31377...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....94 mm. F++. Fresh & fat, with one small dorsal pit...Philippines...$145 (1 available)
....29339...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....92 mm. F++-. Glorious, fat, fully adult specimens of this Cyp collector's favorite...Philippines...$150 (1 available)
....31372...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....101 mm. F+ high. Nice & big, with only one little blemish that is more than offset by the price!!...Philippines...$105 (1 available)
....31373...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....100 mm. F+ high. Large & lovely, with just a few wrinkles on the anterior dorsum...Philippines...$95 (1 available)
....31691...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....87 mm. F+ high. Interesting injury freak of this collectors' favorite, flattened on the dorsum like an under-risen loaf of bread...Philippines...$90 new price (1 available)
....30434...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....88 mm. F+ high. Displays striped pattern (faint but distinct) - like an overgrown carneola. Fresh, dark orange dorsum & teeth, with creamy tan base...Philippines...$70 (1 available)
....37131...(1)...Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....78.5 mm. F++. Super quality if slightly smaller specimen, deep, solid orange with fully formed base...Philippines...$85 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1798....101.5 mm. F++. Philippines. ......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1798....99 mm. F+ high. Philippines........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....97 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....87 mm. F+. Philippines........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea aurantium Gmelin, 1791....82 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36754...(1)...Cypraea beckii Gaskoin, 1836....15 mm. Gem. Large-as-any-listed example of this tiny species with lovely if little dorsal spot pattern. This shell would be famous if it were larger!...Philippines...$34 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea beckii Gaskoin, 1836....14 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea beckii Gaskoin, 1836....11 mm. Gem....Okinawa. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36736...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....21 mm. F++. Big for the species, dorsum smooth with a dark spot & pustulose around the edges...Philippines...$11 (1 available)
....37155...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....18.5 mm. F++. Wonderfully rostrate tips on this fine, pastel orange, pustulose item...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....27510...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....16 mm. Gem. Would French cafe waiters' writings be bistro notation?... New Caledonia...$3 (1 available)
....30988...(4)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....21 to 22 mm. F++. Large, fat amber coloured globes with brown specks & spots...Philippines...$4 (4 available)
....35211...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....20 mm. F++. Large for the species, with tips intact......Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....29846...(3)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....18 to 21 mm. F++. Rich orange-tan with brown spots & specks. Fat beauties...Philippines...$4 (3 available)
....33836...(1pr)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....21 & 22 mm. F++. Pair of big examples, one yellowish with brown markings, the other a solid orange...Philippines...$9 (1 pair available)
....26786...(3)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1938....15 to 18 mm. F++. Not mediocre at all!! Straw coloured body with tan spots & lightly pustulose sides...Solomon Islands...$9 (3 available)
....28188...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata Schilder & Schilder, 1937....16 mm. F++. Unusually light tan colour phase...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....18567...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata fm. mediocris Sch. & Sch., 1938....17 mm. F++. Definitely not mediocre!! Good size for form. Pastel orange with brown spots & specks...Solomon Islands...$4 (1 available)
....19544...(1)...Cypraea bistronotata fm. mediocris Schilder & Schilder, 1938....13 mm. F++. Pastel orange with a few brown dorsal specks but no basal spots...Solomon Islands...$3 (1 available)
....36755...(1set)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1841....25 to 29 mm. F++ to Gem. 3 piece colour variation set, one fairly normal gray spotted, one with a nice pink background & one with a background of greenish yellow...Philippines...$7 (1 set available)
....30990...(7)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....23 to 29 mm. F+++/Gem. Good examples with strong basal callus, some with brown sulcus line...Philippines...$3 (7 available)
....34090...(1set)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....24 to 28 mm. F+++. How now, not so brown cowrie....8 piece set shows the subtle range of colours & patterns of this species...Philippines...$15 (1 set available)
....34089...(1)....Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....30 mm. F++. Large example : this one puts the "cow" back into "cowrie", with heavily brown spotted dorsum...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....31083...(2)...Cypraea boivinii Kiener, 1843....27 mm. F++. Fairly large for the species...Philippines...$3 (2 available)
....32583...(1)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....32 mm. F++. Huge example of this pretty but common species...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....27587...(1)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....21 mm. F++. Highly unusual pink tinted dorsum...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....26450...(2)...Cypraea boivinii Kiener, 1843....27 mm. F++. Fully mature, with heavy, white basal callous...Philippines...$3 (2 available)
....36269...(1pr)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1841....28 & 30 mm. F++. Interesting extreme contrast pair, one darker-than-average greenish blue, the other nearly white...Philippines....$11 (1 pair available)
....33835...(1set)...Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....27 to 30 mm. F++. Mooooove over.....Good, big, 4 piece set showing variability of spot density & sulcus line strength...Philippines...$9 (1 set available)
....34088...(1)....Cypraea boivini Kiener, 1843....32.8 mm. F+ solid. No bull - this is a giant example of this common cowrie, about as big as they get...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
C.... ....38931...(2)...Cypraea
capensis Gray, 1828....29 to 32 mm. F(Beach). Great condition for
beach specimens...South Africa...$6 (2 available) ....36584...(3)...Cypraea
capensis capensis Grey, 1828....28 - 29 mm. Gem. Fantastic, fresh
dived examples with rich brown dorsal markings...South Africa...$35 (3 available) ....32555...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....37 mm. F++. Huge, heavy, wide based
specimen...Philippines...$5 (1 available) ....19910...(2)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....36, 37 mm. F++. Big, heavy based jumbo
examples...Philippines...$5 (2 available) ....6328...(1pr)...Cypraea
caputserpentsis Linne, 1758....33 & 35 mm.
F++ solid.
HIGH-IMPACT pair....One has a crooked, ultra-clear
sulcus, while the other is domineeringly "classic": great display...Zanzibar...$5...new
price (1 pair available) ....31997...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....25 mm. F++.
Bizarre injury freak has dent in one margin & gap in pattern...Philippines...$11
(1 available) ....31998...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....20 mm. F++.
Freaky dwarf specimen with dorsal hump a la miniature mauritiana...Philippines...$10
(1 available) ....35519...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....20 mm. F++. Cute little dwarf snake-head...Philippines...$5
(1 available) ....31781...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....31 mm. F++. Oddly twisted freak with
offset posterior canal possibly due to injury...Thailand...$4 (1 available) ....23074...(5sets)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....28 - 34 mm. F++.
HIGH contrast sets of 5: represents the
species well...Indonesia....$9 (5 sets available) ....7720...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....35 mm. F++.
Quite odd, blurred-out pattern on one side: definitely of interest!...Vietnam...$6
new price (1 available) ....5937...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....32 mm. F++. FREAK!
Has a genuine "fold" in its base (a crease in its bottom??
shades of Plumbers' Butt!)...Indonesia...$10 (1 available) ....32620...(3)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....26 to 27 mm. F++. Neat darker than average
specimens due to lack of the usual large white dorsal spots...Philippines...$4
(3 available) ....32621...(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Interesting injury freak,
with twisted lip, "squashed" appearance & dorsal ridges...Philippines...$5
(1 available) ....32586...(1pr)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....20 & 34 mm. F++. Neat Mutt &
Jeff pair, one dimunitive & one jumbo specimen...Philippines...$5
(1 pair available) ....29573....(1)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. With odd, degenerate dorsal
pattern & shape closer to the Hawaiian caputophidii form...Djibouti...$5
(1 available) ....22772...(1set)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....32 to 35 mm. F++. 3 piece set, dark
& heavy bases & a variety of spot patterns...Philippines...$5 (1 set available) ....17416...(1set)...Cypraea
caputserpentis Linne, 1758....30 - 32 mm. F++. Nice little 3 piece
set shows various spot patterns...Philippines...$5 ( 1 set available) ....38552...(7)...Cypraea
carneola Linne, 1758....29 to 37 mm. F++. Nicely banded fresh
specimens from this tough-to-get location...Somalia...$3 (7 available)
....23409...(1)...Cypraea
carneola Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Lots of alternating light &
dark bands of gray-pink..Zanzibar..$4 (1 available) ....29554...(3)...Cypraea
carneola (forma?) Linne, 1758....41 to 46 mm.
F++. Big, dark & well matured, possibly an East African form, with
coffee brown as opposed to typical rosy orange banding...Djibouti...$6
(3 available) ....29915...(1set)...Cypraea
carneola fm. propinqua Gerret, 1879....23,
30 & 34 mm. F++. 3 piece growth series (not really a growth series
as they are all fully adult), smaller & darker coloured than the nominate
form...Philippines...$25 (1 set available) ....32577...(3)...Cypraea
carneola fm. propinqua Garrett, 1879....20 to 25 mm. F+/F++.
Neat little specimens of this dwarf form...Philippines...$7 (3 available) ....28734...(7)...Cypraea
carneola fm. propinqua Gerrett, 1879....27 to 32 mm. F++. Dark
orange-red backs on these dwarf form specimens...Solomon Islands...$5
(7 available) ....24731...(3)...Cypraea
carneola fm. propinqua Garrett, 1879....27 to 29 mm. F++. Normals...Zanzibar...$5
(3 available) ....6352....(3)...Cypraea
carneola fm. propinqua Garrett, 1879....19 - 20 mm F++ solid.
Cute fully adult dwarfs. Snow white would love them!..Zanzibar...$5 (3
available) ....37472...(1pr)....Cypraea
caurica Linne, 1758....50 mm. F++. Fabulous giant pair, one showing
dorsal banding...Tanzania...$9 (1 pair available) ....37473...(3)...Cypraea caurica
Linne, 1758....44 to 46 mm. F++. Nice, larger than average examples, with backs
nicely mottled with brown...Tanzania...$3 (3 available) ....37474...(1pr)....Cypraea caurica
Linne, 1758....45 mm. F++. Good, big, colour variation pair, one typically brown
mottled, the other banded in blue-gray...Tanzania...$5 (1 pair available) ....37475...(1set)...Cypraea
caurica Linne, 1758....41 to 43 mm. F++. 4 piece set shows a nice
range of shapes & banding patterns...Tanzania...$9 (1 set available) ....5556...(1set)...Cypraea
caurica Linne, 1758....45 - 48 mm. F++.
4 piece set of big ones!...Solomons...$15
(1 set available) ....36764...(1pr)....Cypraea caurica
Linne, 1758....43 & 47 mm. Gem. Pair of good sized specimens, one of which
has a distinct dorsal brown spot...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available) ....33984...(2)...Cypraea
caurica Linne, 1758....38 mm. F++. Nice, solid examples with strong
columellar teeth & a scattering of dark lateral spots. Supplier says it's
form bicallosa but that is a form of guttata...Thailand...$3 (2 available) ....36408....(1set)....Cypraea
caurica elongata Perry. 1811....47 to 49 mm. F++.
Delightful set of 3 - quite variable!!...Tanzania...$11 (1 set available) ....36031...(1)....Cypraea
caurica elongata Perry, 1811....49 mm. F++. Large, surprisingly fat example
of the East African form...Tanzania...$5 (1 available) ....26204...(2prs)...Cypraea
caurica fm. elongata Perry, 1811....46
to 48 mm. F++. Big, EXTREME contrast-pairs:
one with no banding at all, one with excellent, sharp bands...Zanzibar...$22
(2 pairs available) ....30995...(1)...Cypraea
caurica elongata Perry, 1811....47 mm. F+++. BIGGIE!!
Elongate cylinder with wide apperture & well spaced teeth...Philippines...$5
(1 available) ....39226...(1)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....67 mm. F++. Good sized specimen
in great condition...Panama...$9 (1 available) ....37935...(1)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....81 mm. F+. Good, large example of the
Panamanian Deer Cowrie, dark banded under the spots...West Mexico...$13 ....34578...(2)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....66 mm. F++. Fresh,
dark, fully adult examples with strong dorsal spotting...Peru...$7 (2
available) ....34577...(1)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....72 mm. F++. Big examples,
solidly adult, heavily spotted & with dark brown teeth...Peru...$10 (1 available) ....34213...(2)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....75, 77 mm. F++.
Good, big specimens with long brown teeth & no occelated side spots...Panama...$10
(2 available) ....34214...(1)....Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....70 mm. F++. Nice fat example with brown
teeth & finely white speckled margins...Panama...$6 (1 available) ....34239...(2)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....47, 51 mm. F++. Fully adult but slightly
size challenged...Panama...$5 (2 available) ....31697...(1)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....49 mm. F++. With distinct sulcus & dark brown
teeth...Panama...$5 (1 available) ....32098...(6prs)....Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....48 to 60 mm. F++. Great, slightly size
challenged, yet fully adult examples...Panama...$7 (6 pairs available) ....32945...(1set)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....61 to 71 mm. F+/F++.
Unusual 4 piece set shows development from first teeth to full maturity...Peru...$13
(1 set available) ....31201...(1)...Cypraea
cervinetta Kiener, 1843....64, 65 mm. F+. Interesting examples of pattern
development, with fully formed lip & teeth, but completely unspotted, gray
banded dorsum & sides...Peru...$5 (1 available) NEW....39515...(1)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....98 mm. F+. Unusual specimen seems
to have been rolled in a storm, and has fine sand grains under the nacre, densest
along the sulcus line...Florida...$20 (1 available) ...29582...(2)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....110 mm. F+ nicely.
Good sized example with natural repair on posterior lateral lip. Other lateral
display is outstanding, however!!...Florida...$30 (2 available)
...33349...(1)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....104 mm. F+. Decent
ex col example, structurally mature but still with a hint of juvenile dorsal
pattern...Florida...$20 (1 available) ...29588...(1)....Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....91
mm. F+. Nice fully adult example, in dark shades of brown, with clear
spot pattern. A few dorsal sand grains...Florida...$20 (1 available)
....37934...(1)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....89 mm. F+. Fully adult bargain examples,
though somewhat less than large...Florida...$15 (2 available) ...29592...(1)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....86 mm. F+. Unusual
specimen, heavily clouded a la griseoformis.
The White Stag of deer cowries...Florida...$14 (1 available)
...29590...(4)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....84 to 86 mm. F+ high: good
quality for this normally rough species. Completely adult pattern &
dentition on these compact versions...Florida...$14 (4 available)
...29593...(1set)...Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....83
to 85 mm. F+ nicely. Neat 3 piece set showing a nice variety of dorsal
spotting patterns...Florida...$38 (1 set available) SOLD....Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....144 mm. F++. Florida. .......shell
sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment SOLD....Cypraea
cervus Linne, 1758....130 mm. F++. Florida.
.......shell
sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea cervus Linne, 1758....90 to 115 mm. F+. Florida. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea cervus Linne, 1758....95 & 100 mm. F+. Florida. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea cervus Linne, 1758....68 mm. F++. Fascinating fully adult dwarf specimen. Florida. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea childreni Gray, 1825....18 to 20 mm. F+. Saipan. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36767...(1)...Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....46 mm. F++. Huge, massively callused example with pastel orange teeth & a few lilac lateral spots...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....22061...(1)...Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....44 mm. F++. Nice large typical specimen...Philippines...$12 (1 available)....22062...(3)...Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....40 to 42 mm. Gem. Big, perfect examples...Philippines...$7 (3 available)
....22063...(1)...Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....38 mm. Gem. Lavender spots & orange "gums"...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....32183...(1set)...Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....30 to 36 mm. F++. 5 piece pattern variation set showing a range of dorsal pattern intensities...Philippines...$12 (1 set available)
....5918...(1)...Cypraea chinensis L, 1758....35.5 mm. F++. FREAK! Looks like something took a BITE out of this guy's teeth! (but he grew them back later, the dent remaining)....Indonesia...$10 (1 available)....34093...(1pr)...Cypraea chinensis....28 & 32 mm. F++. Comparison pair, one of the nominate form from the Philippines & one of the violacea Rous, 1905 form from Mozambique with more intense purple marginal spotting...Indo-Pacific...$5 (1 pair available)
....32624...(1pr)....Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....26 & 27 mm. F++. Neat dwarf pair, one with brown mottled dorsum, the other light blueish with a few brown markings...Philippines...$6 (1 pair available)
....6315...(1)...Cypraea chinensis fm. variolaria Lamark, 1810....27 mm. Gem. Normal-sized adult...Zanzibar...$7 (1 available)
....36632...(1)...Cypraea chinensis fm. variolaria Lamarck, 1810....27 mm. F++. Interesting form with brown dorsal overlay, reduced lateral spotting & strong, bright orange teeth...Tanzania...$5 (1 available)
....28657...(1pr)....Cypraea chinensis fm. violacea Rous, 1905....32 & 38 mm. F++. Good developmental pair, one barely adult, the other with dark purple spots, heavy base & orange teeth...Tanzania...$6 (1 pair available)....36633...(1)...Cypraea chinensis fm. violacea Rous, 1905....31 mm. F++. On this form bright purple polka-dots extend from the base to half-way up the sides!...Tanzania...$7 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea chinensis Gmelin, 1791....42 to 44 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoymentSOLD....Cypraea cinerea Gmelin, 1791....21 to 24 mm. F++. Guadeloupe. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39222...(1)...Cypraea cicercula Linne, 1758....19 mm. F++. Pure white albino. Not “beach-bleached”, because the tips & fine dorsal pustules are intact...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....34155...(1)...Cypraea cicercula Linne, 1758....21 mm. F++. Big for the specie, pale tan with intact tips and pustulose backs...Philippines...$5 ......
....35068...(1)...Cypraea cicercula Linne, 1758....18 mm. F++. Smooth, light yellow-tan, with well beaked extremities...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....23412...(2)...Cypraea cicercula Linne, 1758....14 to 16 mm. F++. Finely pustulose backs & neat extended tips...Zanzibar...$5 (2 available)
....31782...(1)...Cypraea cicercula fm. lienardi Jousseaume, 1874....17 mm. F++. "Rare subspecies" according to supplier, with paler colour than the nominate form & neatly pustulose backs...Thailand...$7 (1 available)
....5600...(1)...Cypraea clandestina Linne, 1758....18 mm. F++. Nice, typical...Langford Island....$4 (1 available)
....38554...(1)...Cypraea clandestina Linne, 1758....15 mm. Gem. Nice specimen from this difficult locality...Somalia...$4 (1 available)
....31780...(1)...Cypraea clandestina Linne, 1758....11 mm. F++. Totally adult dwarf specimen...Thailand...$6 (1 available)
....31864...(3)...Cypraea clandestina fm. candida Pease, 1865....15 to 19 mm. F+. Southwest Pacific form of the species...Guadalcanal...$3 for 2 (3 available)
....31865...(1)...Cypraea clandestina monillaria Lamarck, 1810....18 mm. F++. Good specimens of this scarce form...Japan...$5 (1 available)
....18832...(2)...Cypraea clandestina fm. passerina Melvill, 1888....16 to 19 mm. Gem. White with pinkish-plum bands. Bown zig-zag lines of the typical form are nearly absent...Zanzibar...$3 (2 available)
....6364....(1)...Cypraea clandestina passerina Melvill, 1888....18 mm. F++ solid. Good, normal guy... Zanzibar...$5 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea clandestina Linne, 1758....19 to 20 mm. F++. Zanzibar. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea clandestina passerina Melvill, 1888....20 mm. F++ solid. Zanzibar. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....28189...(1)...Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832....13 mm. F++. Very dark specimen. Blue-gray nearly as dark as the brown dorsal blotch...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....34875...(1set)...Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832....10 to 13 mm. F++. Contamination never looked so good!! Neat 3 piece set shows variation of dorsal blotch size...Thailand...$18 (1 set available)
....17877...(2)...Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832....10 to 11 mm. Gem. Contaminate your collection!...Philippines...$9 (2 available)
....35554...(1)...Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832....10 mm. F++. Just a little bit of contamination!...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea contaminata Sowerby, 1832....11 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39096...(2)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. Big, beautiful examples...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....27619...(3)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....31 to 33 mm. F++. Odd enough!! Confused, semi-melanistic, large specimens, darker than usual & with smeared or disturbed spot patterns ...Philippines...$8 (3 available)
....36740...(1)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....32 mm. F++. Nice large example of the typical pattern form...Philippines...$6 (1 available)...27618...(1)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....32 mm. F++. Nice big, typically-patterned specimen...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....33353...(1)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....31 mm. F++. Big specimen with dense spotted dorsal pattern & thick lateral callus...Philippines...$6 (1 available)...30993...(4)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....29 to 31 mm. F++. Big, boldly spotted specimens...Philippines...$5 (4 available)
....33470...(1set)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....22 to 29 mm. F++. GREAT 9 piece set shows a range of adult sizes & spot patterns...Philippines...$24 (1 set available)....34160...(1)....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....28 mm. F++. Mild-mannered medium-melanism on this superb shell - expressed as partial doubling & darkening of dorsal pattern...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....36221...(1pr)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....27 & 28 mm. F++. Good sized extreme pattern pair, one with a few big spots, the other with lots of small ones...Philippines....$10 (1 pair available)
....33468...(1pr)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Interesting large pair, one with twice the dorsal spot density of the other...Philippines...$8 (1 pair available)
...30072...(1)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....26 mm. F++. Unusual for its broken dorsal pattern & multiple sized spots...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....35406...(1set)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....24 to 26 mm. F++. Nice 3 piece set shows subtle but distinct spot & pattern variations......Philippines...$5 (1 set available)
....34796...(7)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....23 to 26 mm. F++. Selected high grade larger specimens...Philippines...$4 (7 available)....20347...(1set)....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....23 to 25 mm. F+ to F++. 3 patterns on this nice little set of 3...Philippines...$9 (1 set available)
....36222...(1pr)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....23 mm. F++. EXTREME pair, one totally typical, the other with freaky, scrambled & degenerate dorsal spot pattern...Philippines....$12 (1 pair available)
....23414...(1)...Cypraea cribraria fm. comma Perry, 1811....20 mm. F++. Dark red-brown dorsum with variable sized white dots...Zanzibar...$8 (1 available)
....32351...(1set)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....19 to 20 mm. F++. 4 piece sets show variability of spot patterns...Philippines...$7 (1 set available)
....37039...(1)...Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....18 mm. F++. Fully & solidly mature yet semi-dwarf specimen...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
...32352...(1pr)....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....16 to 17 mm. F++. Neat pair shows high & low extremes of spot density. Probably named forms!...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available)
....20217...(6)...Cypraea cribraria fm. comma Perry, 1811...15 to 18 mm. F++. Cute little dwarf form specimens from Zanzibar...$7 (6 available)
....39221...(2)...Cypraea cribraria fm. orientalis Schilder & Schilder, 1940....32 mm. F++. Large, lovely examples with lots of big spots, so dense that some merge...South China Sea...$15 (2 available)
....25574...(1)...Cypraea cribraria fm. rottnestensis Raybaudi, 1987....29 mm. F+. Large and well inflated example of this scarce form with more numerous but reduced sized spots...Australia...$65 (1 available)
....32185...(1)...Cypraea cribraria cf. zadela, Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. Large specimen with slight pattern doubling at the labral margin...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....20221...(1)...Cypraea cribraria fm. zadela Linne, 1758....27.5 mm. F++. Odd one, with confused dorsum of various size & shape spots...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....35 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoymentSOLD....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. Excellent "pre-melanistic" specimen: darker than usual....Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea cribraria Linne, 1758....29 mm. F+. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36766...(1)...Cypraea dani, Beals, 2002....20 mm. F++. Big, fully toothed white base & brown speckled greenish dorsum...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....36654...(1pr)....Cypraea dani Beals, 2002....20 & 21 mm. F++. Great, inflated, colour pair of this recently described species, one heavily brown speckled, the other lightly marbled in brown over blue-gray dorsal band...Thailand...$23 (1 pair available)
....36738...(1)...Cypraea dayritiana Cate, 1963....17.5 mm. F++. ...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea decipiens Smith, 1880....51 mm. Gem. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38933...(2)...Cypraea depressa Gray, 1824....36, 41 mm. F++. Great specimens of this heavy based, gray spotted specie...Philippines...$7 (2 available)
...22194...(1)...Cypraea cf depressa Gray, 1824....38 mm. F+. Unusual example with very dark, possibly melanistic dorsum & odd anterior end due to healed injury...Indo-Pacific...$9 (1 available)
....34659...(2)...Cypraea depressa Gray, 1824....34 mm. F++. Good, solid, fully adult examples...Philippines...$4 (2 available)
....7739...(1)...Cypraea depressa Gray, 1824....31 mm. F++. FREAK! Fully adult, but margins scarcely calloused, and with odd dark blotches on the base: quite unusual...Philippines...$10 new price (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea depressa Gray, 1824....40 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment....38211...(1)...Cypraea diluculum Reeve, 1845....29 mm. F++. Startlingly large for this small species & with classic pattern...Tanzania...$5 (1 available)
....38209...(1)...Cypraea diluculum virginalis Schilder & Schilder, 1933....22.5 mm. F++. Large, pretty specimen with classic dorsal pattern & distinguished by a lack of basal spotting...Tanzania...$20 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea diluculum Reeve, 1845....28 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea diluculum Reeve, 1845....18 to 24 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38934...(1)...Cypraea edentula Gray, 1825....28 mm. F+. Actually decent example, fresh dead but with some residual gloss...South Africa...$15
....38935...(1)...Cypraea edentula Gray, 1825....23 mm. F+. Fresh dead but acceptable specimen...South Africa...$12
....30945...(1)...Cypraea edentula fm. nahoonensis Lorenz, 1989....24 mm. F++. More heavily patterned form, with big, toothless grin.
....17879...(1)...Cypraea eglantina Duclos, 1833....55 mm. F++. Lovely green glazed specimen...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....31867...(2)...Cypraea eglantina Duclos, 1833....47, 55 mm. F++. Good, solid specimens with fully mature base & teeth...Okinawa...$4 (2 available)
....36171...(1)....Cypraea cf. eglantina Duclos, 1833....51 mm. F++. Supplier claims it looks like a cross between this species & arabica gibba. Looks like a sort of squat eglantina to me...Thailand...$5 (1 available)...32611...(1)...Cypraea eglantina Duclos, 1833....46 mm. F++. Neatly elongate yet still dwarf specimen with all adult features...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
....4030...(1)...Cypraea eglantina Duclos, 1833....44 mm. F++ solid. Mild-mannered melanism, rostrate...New Caladonia...$30 (1 available)
...22067...(2)...Cypraea eglantina fm. grieseofformis Duclos, 1833....58 to 64 mm. F++. Greenish-gray glaze over a barely discernable typical pattern...Philippines...$8 (2 available)
....17878...(1)...Cypraea eglantina grieseofformis Duclos, 1833....62 mm. F++. The lovely green-glazed form...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....18069...(3)...Cypraea eglantina fm. griseoformis Duclos....46 to 55 mm. F++. So heavily glazed the typical pattern is almost obliterated...Philippines...$7 (3 available)
....30992...(1)...Cypraea eglantina fm. griseofformis Duclos, 1833....51 mm. F++. Fully developed example of the form, with gray-green glaze over entire dorsal pattern...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....38936...(1)...Cypraea
erosa Linne, 1758....44 mm. F++. Jumbo, lightly speckled specimen
with twin, red-brown basal blotches...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....25835...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne,1758....40 mm. F++. BIG dark spotted specimen...Tanzania...$9
(1 available)
....29574...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....36 mm. F++. Fully mature, with thickly calloused base...Djibouti...$4 (1 available)
....23136...(1set)....Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....30 to 35 mm. F+++. Set of 6 variations from the Seyshelles...$10 (1 set available)
....37415...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....34 mm. F++. Nice, dark, lightly banded example with super-dark brown lateral blotches...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....23417...(2)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....32 to 33 mm. F+/F++. Reportedly subfossil, it is almost too shiny. Maybe a light colour form?...Zanzibar...$10 (2 available)
....20635...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....32 mm. Unusual sub-fossil. Looks a bit pale but fine otherwise, it it apparently from a terrestrial site...Madagascar...$7 (1 available)
....32557...(4)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....30 to 32 mm. F++. Good sized specimens with strong brown lateral spots...Philippines...$3 (4 available)....20488...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....21 mm. F++. Tiny full adult...Zanzibar...$3 (1 available)
....30437...(1)...Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....18 mm. F++. Totally adult & totally tiny dwarf specimen...Djibouti...$9 (1 available)
....31934...(3)...Cypraea erosa fm. chlorizans Melvill, 1888....21 to 25 mm. F++. Dwarf but solidly mature, with callus base & extended labral teeth...Papua New Guinea...$4 (3 available)
....30435...(8)...Cypraea erosa cf. similis Gmelin, 1791....27 to 33 mm. F++. With brown lined base & bold lateral spots...Djibouti...$5 (8 available)
SOLD....Cypraea erosa Linne, 1758....52.5 mm. F++. Tanzania. ......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....20633...(1set)...Cypraea errones Linne, 1758....30 to 35 mm. F+/F++. Nice 4 piece sets show variations of shade & banding...Philippines...$5 (1 set available)
...20863...(1pr)....Cypraea errones Linne, 1758....23 & 35 mm. F++. Niger/rostrate pair. One niger, the other, rostrate...Australia...$45 (1 pair available)
....36272...(1pr)...Cypraea cf. errones Linne, 1758....28 & 33 mm. F++. Odd freak pair, one with closed posterior canal, the other with toothless aperture but fully adult dorsal pattern...Philippines...$15 (1 pair available)
....37512...(1)...Cypraea errones Linne, 1758....31.5 mm. F++. Larger than average example of this common specie...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....28658...(1)...Cypraea errones Linne, 1758...27 mm. F++. "Toasted" and elongate - the next best thing to niger and rostrate!!...Australia...$25 (1 available)
....3303...(1)...Cypraea errones Linne, 1758....24.5 mm. F++. Toasted!! Early-stage melanism with a large black blotch in the center, slightly rostrate : quite unusual for the species, and the locality...Queensland...$27 (1 available)
...16774...(3)...Cypraea errones Linne, 1758....17.5 mm. Gem. Dwarf form. blue-gray banded backs with brown specks & a dorsal blotch...Australia...$5 (3 available)
...19514...(4)...Cypraea fimbriata durbanensis Schilder & Schilder, 1938....13 to 16 mm. F++/Gem. Nice specimens, gray with tan band & brown end spots...Zanzibar...$4 (4 available)
....23545...(4)...Cypraea fimbriata durbanensis Schilder & Schilder, 1938....13 to 14 mm. F+++. Cute! cream & tan with deep purple tips...South Africa...$5 (4 available)
....23064...(9)...Cypraea fimbriata fm. marmorata Schroter, ?....9 to 12 mm. F++. Data & author supplied but form is not in Rice...Okinawa...$4
SOLD....Cypraea fimbriata fm. durbanensis Schilder & Schilder, 1938....15 to 17 mm. Gem. Zanzibar. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38937...(1)...Cypraea friendii Gray, 1831....71 mm. F++. Make this fine friendii your new best friend!...West Australia...$45
SOLD....Cypraea friendi Gray, 1831....72 mm. F++. Australia........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....31844...(1)...Cypraea fuscodentata Gray, 1825....37 mm. F+ high. Heavily mature, dark toothed base & big for the species...South Africa...$20 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea fuscodentata Gray, 1825....35 mm. F+ high. South Africa. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....34865...(1)...Cypraea fuscorubra Shaw, 1909....35 mm. F++. Great example with wonderfully thickened basal callus...South Africa...$35 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea fuscorubra Shaw, 1909....35.5 mm. Gem. South Africa. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36145...(3)...Cypraea gangranosa Dillwyn, 1817....18 to 20 mm. Gem. On the large side for this form & location...Thailand...$6 (3 available)
SOLD....Cypraea gangranosa Dillwyn, 1817....15 to 17 mm. Gem. Thailand. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....30856...(1)...Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846....16 mm. F++. Pretty endemic species resembles a miniature guttata from the top, with distinct white spots on bright orange background...Hawaii...$25 (1 available)
....37245...(1)...Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846....13.5 mm. Gem. Great, if slightly smaller specimen, Looks a bit like a miniature C. guttata without the dark basal lines...Hawaii...$25 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846....16 mm. Gem. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea gaskoini Reeve, 1846....14 mm. Gem. Hawaii......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....29050...(9prs)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....20 to 22 mm. F++. Extreme colour pairs, one in choclate brown, the other in orange tan...Philippines...$12 (9 pairs available)
....36737...(1)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....20 mm. Gem. Good, big, dark specimens with intact extended tips...Philippines...$6 (1 available)...37153...(1pr)....Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....20 & 21 mm. F++. Big light & dark pair, one typically brown, the other with two indistinct lighter dorsal spots...Philippines...$17 (1 pair available)
....23085...(3)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....19.5 - 20 mm. F+++ to Gem. BIG, lovely globular cowries...Philippines...$9 (3 available)
....35415...(3)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....19 to 20 mm. F++. Highly inflated & large for the specie, cinnamon with brown speckles...Philippines...$5 (3 available)
....33687...(5)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....19 to 20 mm. F++. Fresh, fat & dark orange, with 4 ventral spots...Philippines...$5 (5 available)
....31328...(2)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....19, 20 mm. F++. Big, burnt orange & inflated, with lots of brown spots...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....23087...(4)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....18 - 19 mm. F+++ to Gem. Good-sized, excellent specimens...Philippines...$9 (4 available)
....33311...(4)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....17 to 19 mm. F++. Spherical & well beaked, in orange-tan with brown spots...Philippines...$5 (4 available)
....23088...(1set)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....17 - 18 mm. F+++ to Gem. Nice set of 3, one is normal, one has very pronounced labral spotting, and one is very dark....Philippines...$20 (1 set available)
....23089...(5)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....17 - 18 mm. F+++ to Gem. Dark, fresh specimens at a great price!!...Philippines...$7 (5 available)
....6358...(1)...Cypraea globulus forma. ??....14 mm. Gem. OK - this one has me completely stumped: it sure looks like a globulus to me, but it has 4 distinct spots on its base, which is an amber color...Zanzibar...$15 new price (1 available)
....20582...(2)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....13 to 14 mm. Gem. Plump, pastel orange with tiny brown spots...Zanzibar...$7 (2 available)
....27522...(2)...Cypraea globulus Linne, 1758....11 to 14 mm. F++ solid. Similar to C. cicercula but with smooth, non-pustulose dorsum...New Caledonia...$5 (2 available)
....32002...(1)...Cypraea cf. gracilis Gaskoin, 1839....22 mm. F+. Freak with oddly humped dorsum & displaced base...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....36148...(1set)...Cypraea gracilis Gaskoin, 1849....13, 15, 15, 16 mm Gem. DELIGHTFUL set of 4 variations...Thailand...$10 (1 set available)
....33355...(3)...Cypraea gracilis fm. japonica Schilder, 1931....12 to 16 mm. F++. Blue gray backs with a small dorsal spot & fine brown marginal dots...Japan...$4 (3 available)
....31870...(3)...Cypraea gracilis fm. japonica Schilder, 1931....14 to 15 mm. F++. Endemic form with reduced dorsal markings...Japan...$5 (3 available)
....23546...(1)...Cypraea gracilis fm. macula Angas, 1867....18 mm. F+++. In this form the brown markings coalesce on the dorsum to form a spot similar to C. stolida...Australia...$3 (1 available)
....1374....(2)...Cypraea gracilis fm. macula Angas, 1867....15 - 16 mm. Gem. Cream with blue-gray back & brown dorsal blotch..Philippines..$2 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea gracilis Gaskoin, 1849....9 to 19 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
Re-listed....29214...(1)...Cypraea granulata Pease, 1862....31 mm. F++. Nice, large, light tan specimen with strong basal teeth & amazingly pustulose back...Hawaii...$30 (1 available)
....35964...(2)...Cypraea granulata Pease, 1862....27 to 29 mm. F+++. Nice, big examples of this endemic species with pustulose backs & heavily toothed bases...Hawaii...$30 (2 available)
....38938...(1)...Cypraea guttata Gmelin, 1791....71 mm. F+. Absolutely huge discount specimen, with dark dorsum and brown striped base, but likely dead taken due to some loss of gloss...Philippines...$125
....37689...(1)...Cypraea guttata Gmelin, 1791....64 mm. Gem-. Glorious big example of the nominate form, with a pattern of large spots & small dots on the rich orange dorsum & long brown teeth extending onto the margins...Philippines...$175 (1 available)
....34472...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....55 mm. F++. Lovely deep orange example with strong sulcus line...South China Sea...$130 (1 available)
....34473...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....55 mm. F++. Odd, slightly pear shaped specimen, with dorsum more tan than orange, very lightly spotted & with big white lateral callus...South China Sea...$135 (1 available)
....27729...(2)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1930....52, 53 mm. F++ high . With deeper apricot orange & fewer spots than the nominate form, these are richly coloured examples of this rare form...South China Sea...$165 (2 available)...34476...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....50 mm. F++. Interesting example, with large, nearly spot-free area, striped lateral callus & neat bifurcated sulcus...South China Sea...$135 (1 available)
....34474...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....47.5 mm. F++. Unusual example with very different patterns on either side of the strong, bent sulcus line...South China Sea...$145 (1 available)
....34477...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....47 mm. F++. Fully adult & boldly polka-dotted semi-dwarf...South China Sea...$120 firm (1 available)
....34355...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. azumai Schilder, 1960....45 mm. F+. Delightfully plump, sparsely spotted specimen with good gloss but one tiny pinhole on the base...Taiwan...$135
....31485...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. guttata Gmelin, 1791....54 mm. Gem. Beautiful, flawless specimen with fine spotted dorsum & dark brown basal lines extending up onto the sides...Philippines...$155
....36056...(1)....Cypraea guttata fm. guttata Gmelin, 1791....47 mm. F. Great bargain on this example of this famous shell, fully mature, with good colour & gloss, only some slight abrasions on the dorsum reveals its very fresh dead-taken status...Philippines...$40 (1 available)....30848...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. guttata Gmelin, 1791....45 mm. F++. Lovely, fully adult dwarf specimen with big, evenly spaced spots, great tips & good gloss. One tiny pinhole between 2 teeth is the only flaw I can find...Philippines...$140 (1 available)
....39384...(2)...Cypraea guttata fm. surinensis Raybaudi, 1978....48, 51 mm. F++. Lovely adult examples with fine dorsal spotting & rich brown basal spots & teeth ...Thailand...$155 (2 available)
....39385...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. surinensis Raybaudi, 1978....50 mm. F++. Great late adolescent specimen, with good dorsal spotting and brown teeth, but slightly lighter basal spots and minimal lateral callus...Thailand...$135 (1 available)
....39386...(1)...Cypraea guttata fm. surinensis Raybaudi, 1978....48 mm. F++. Slightly sub-adult, lighter than adult and with paler base spots. Nicely spotted dorsum, though...Thailand...$120 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea guttata fm. guttata Gmelin, 1791....67.5 mm. F++. Huge, glorious example, Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea guttata fm. guttata Gmelin, 1791....53 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea hammondae fm. raysummersi Schilder, 1960....14 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....37157...(1)...Cypraea helvola Linne, 1758....26.5 mm. F++. Nice, large, typically patterned specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....34797...(1)...Cypraea helvola Linne, 1758....13 mm. F++. Amazingly small dwarf specimen, fully adult...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....39227...(8)...Cypraea helvola fm. hawaiiensis Melvill, 1888....20 to 24 mm. F++. Beautiful specimens of this lighter coloured endemic form...Hawaii...$11 (8 available)
....32695...(3prs)...Cypraea helvola fm. hawaiiensis Melvill, 1888....18 to 21 mm. F++. Nice little pairs to show pattern variation...Hawaii...$3 (3 pairs available)
SOLD....Cypraea helvola Linne, 1758....23 to 27 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoymentSOLD....Cypraea helvola fm. citrinicolor Iredale, 1935....18 to 20 mm. F++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38939...(1)...Cypraea
hirundo rouxi Ancey, 1882....17.5 mm. F++. With blue-gray banded
back & finely spotted margins...New Britain...$7
(1 available)
....33217...(1)...Cypraea
hirundo rouxi Ancey, 1882....11, 13 mm. F++.
Form with minimal dorsal spotting...New Caledonia...$7 (1 available)
....38940...(1)...Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791....60 mm. F++. Highly elongated form virtually identical to plate 13, fig. 16 in Lorenz & Hubert...East Africa...$8
....38941...(1)...Cypraea
histrio Gmelin, 1791....57, 60 mm. F++. Massive examples, with
reticulate dorsum, heavy, ivory white base & lightly gray spotted margins...Tanzania...$7
....37477...(3)...Cypraea
histrio Gmelin, 1791....43 to 48 mm. Gem. Good, chunky specimens with
well developed bases & lateral spots...Tanzania...$3 (3 available)
....36475...(1)...Cypraea histrio x maculifera ?....61 mm. F++. Supplied as C. histrio but with large, dark brown stain on the columellar surface a la C. maculifera...Tanzania...$15 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea cf. histrio Gmelin, 1791....60 mm. Gem-. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea histrio Gmelin, 1791....55 mm. Gem. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....34237A...(3)...Cypraea humphreysi Gray, 1825....15+ mm. F++. Nice little biggies!!...Philippines...$11 (3 available)
....33040...(1)...Cypraea humphreysi Gray, 1825....14 mm. F++. Good sized specimens...Solomon Islands...$10 (1 available)
....33041...(7)...Cypraea humphreysi Gray, 1825....12 to 13 mm. F++. Well speckled typical specimens...Solomon Islands...$8 (7 available)
....32561...(1set)...Cypraea helvola Linne, 1758....23 to 27 mm. F++. 4 piece series of gradually darker specimens...Philippines...$6 (1 set available)
SOLD....Cypraea helvola Linne, 1758....23 to 27 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
NOTE: These hungerfordi are not that rare any more!! SO, we have reduced the price on many of them.
....38942...(3)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....33 to 37 mm. F++. If your Taurus runs out of fuel does it have a hungerfordi gasoline?...China...$25 (3 available)
....26123...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....42 mm. F+++. HUGE!!...South China Sea...$60 new price (1 available)
....26124...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....38 to 40 mm. F+++. You'll hungerfordis prime, large specimen (oooh the Punishment)...South China Sea...$30 new price (1 available)
....36403...(1)....Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....38 mm. F+++. Big, fully developed specimen with marginal spots so dense they form a black lateral line...China...$18 (1 available)
....34622...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....38 mm. F++. Good, big example virtually ringed by the black lateral spots...China...$17....19694...(2)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....37, 38 mm. F++. Lightest orange-pink base & marginal callous with a few black spots...Taiwan...$20 new price (2 available)
Re-listed....19380...(3)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....38 mm. F++. Nice, well developed examples, on the large side...Taiwan...$29 (3 available)
....24464...(2)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....37 mm. F. Bargain starter specimen has 6 or 7 pinholes in the dorsum...Japan...$10 (2 available)
....25813...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....35 mm. F++. Orange base, brown marginal spots. You'll hunger for these hungerfordi...Taiwan...$20 new price (1 available)
....36402...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....34 mm. F+++. Great, fully mature examples of this scarce, deep water cowrie...China...$12 (1 available)
...26126...(3)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....32 to 35 mm. F+++. Good specimens of this uncommon cowrie...South China Sea...SPECIAL!!!...$15 new price (3 available)
....35521...(1)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....34 mm. F++. You'll hunger for dis fine specimen...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....25814...(4)...Cypraea hungerfordi Sowerby, 1888....30 to 34 mm. F++. Fully adult specimens at a juvenile price...Taiwan...$18 (4 available)
....39228...(5)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....37 to 39 mm. F++. Nice large examples with minimal black flecks...Philippines...$9 (5 available)
....36270...(1)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....33 mm. F++. Big, glorious example with dark orange tips & strongly speckled dorsum...Philippines....$5 (1 available)
....2372...(4)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....28 - 33 mm. F+. Light-colerd form, almost no brown axial marks. Subfossil...Zanzibar..$6 (4 available)
...270...(1)...Cypraea isabella L, 1758....29 mm. F++. Unusual: only a teensie tiny trace of pattern. Light tan...Fiji...$8 (1 available)
....31785...(1)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....26 mm. F++. ("super cute spotted form" - according to my source) Fresh & dark, with orange tips & dorsal specks joined to form fine black axial lines...Thailand...$4 (1 available)
....36762...(1)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....23 mm. Gem. Typical size, patterned with lots of fine black axial streaks...Philippines...$4 (1 available)...34426...(2)...Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....18, 19 mm. F++. Dimunitive, dark, dwarf examples...Thailand...$4 (2 available)
....35971...(4)...Cypraea isabella fm. controversa Gray, 1824....14 to 20 mm. Gem. Quite decent specimens of this endemic form supplier says come from deep water...Hawaii...$9 (4 available)
....36030...(1)....Cypraea isabella fm. rumphii Schilder & Schilder, 1938....36 mm. F++. Inflated form with minimal black markings & red-brown tips...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....36 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea isabella Linne, 1758....25 to 33 mm. F++. Cook Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....33359...(1)...Cypraea kieneri Hidalgo, 1906....19 mm. F++. With 3 pale blue-gray dorsal bands...Mozambique...$3 (1 available)
....23549...(6)...Cypraea kieneri Hidalgo, 1906....16 to 19 mm. F+++. Blue-gray banded backs & with black spotted tips...Solomon Is....$3 (6 available)
....29559...(1)...Cypraea kieneri Hidalgo, 1906....17 mm. F++. Large, with nice blue-gray back...Djibouti...$3 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea kieneri Hidalgo, 1906....19 to 21 mm. F++. LARGE, decent specimens...Zanzibar. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....32559...(3)...Cypraea labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....19 to 21 mm. F++. Big for the species with white spotted, dark brown backs...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
....33689...(1)...Cypraea labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....20 mm. F++. Big for the species, dorsum spotted like a tiny fawn...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....23057...(3sets)...Cypraea labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....15 - 18 mm. F++ to Gem. Terrific trios!! Sets of three very different variations...Queensland, Australia...$8 (3 sets available)
....26453...(1)...Cypraea labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....17 mm. F++. NICE!! Rich chestnut brown with fine tan spots, these are considerably darker than average...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....34169...(1pr)....Cypraea labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....17 mm. F+/F++. Extreme pattern pair...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available)
....36747...(1)...Cypraea cf. labrolineata Gaskoin, 1849....14 mm. F++. Cafe au lait tan with lots of tiny white spots...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....32563...(2)...Cypraea "labroserpentis"....(ventrum) 20 & 26.3 mm. F+. Possibly a hybrid between labrolineata & caputserpentis, with teeth & dark margins of caputserpentis but no basal callus or apical spots, & the overall shape & dorsal sulcus of labrolineata...Philippines...$ make me an offer (2 available)
....36054...(1)....Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....42 mm. F++. Nice, large, well inflated example with lots of brown marginal spots & brown lined tips...Thailand...$12 (1 available)
....34215...(1)...Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....42 mm. F++. Good sized specimens with fairly pale dorsum, from unusual locale...South Africa...$5 (1 available)
....22777...(1)...Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....38 mm. F++. Interesting colour change at the sulcus...India...$3 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....50 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....43 mm. Gem. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....34, 37 & 39 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea lamarcki Gray, 1825....37 mm. F+ to F++. India. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea lamarcki redimita Melvill, 1888....26 & 28 mm. F++. Burma. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....33265...(1)...Cypraea langfordi Kuroda, 1938....55 mm. F++ high. Spectacular specimen of this scarce & beautiful collectors' item...Philippines...$275 and WELL worth it! (1 available)
....38943...(1)...Cypraea leucodon Broderip, 1828....84.5 mm. F+. Big specimen of this famous rarity, fat & clearly spotted, but downgraded due to a couple of minor flaws...Philippines...$900 (1 available)
....38944...(1)...Cypraea leucodon Broderip, 1828....79 mm. Gem-. Magnificent example, beautifully spotted and virtually flawless (just 2 tiny dorsal scratches)...Philippines...$1100 (1 available)
....37543...(1)...Cypraea leucodon Broderip, 1828 ....86 mm. Gem-. Outstanding example of this rare collectors item, big for the species, with thickly callused base, well developed tips, big, bold spotted pattern & a rakishly tilted sulcus. Rice lists only one larger for $2000. This one has it all!...Philippines...$1250 (1 available)
....18841...(2)...Cypraea leviathan fm titan Schilder & Schilder, 1962....27 to 29 mm. F++. Fully adult dwarf forms so small the name seems inappropriate!...Zanzibar...$9 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea leviathan fm. titan Schilder & Schilder, 1932....72 mm. Gem. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea leviathan titan Schilder & Schilder, 1932....61 mm. F+. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....23436...(1)...Cypraea limacina Lamarck, 1811....20 mm. F+++. Pustulose dorsum, darker than typical...Zanzibar...$8 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea limacina fm. interstincta Wood, 1828....22 mm. F++. Zanzibar. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....27528...(2)...Cypraea listeri Gray, 1828....15, 17 mm. F++ solid. Blue-gray bands & black lateral spots...New Caledonia...$10 (2 available)
....36634...(1)...Cypraea listeri Gray, 1828....15 mm. F++. Blue-gray back with white base & strong brown labral spots...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea lisetae Kilburn, 1975....14 mm. Gem. Philippines. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea lurida Linne, 1758....48 mm. F++. Mediterranean. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....31084...(2)...Cypraea lutea Gmelin, 1791....21 & 22 mm. F++. Larger & darker than average specimens...Philippines...$3 (2 available)
....27032...(2)...Cypraea lutea Gmelin, 1791....20 to 22 mm. F++. Large, dark specimens...Philippines...$4 (2 available)
....23554...(4)...Cypraea lutea Gmelin, 1791....16 mm. F+++. Boldly speckled bright orange bases...Philippines...$3 (4 available)
SOLD....Cypraea lutea Gmelin, 1791....22.5 mm. F++. Philippines. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....37099...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....63 mm. F++. Huge specimen with faint milky overcast...Tanzania...$17 (1 available)
....37939...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....62 mm. F++. Big specimen, with milky dorsal overcast, except at the sulcus...Ex col ?...$9 (1 available)
....17885...(3)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....54 to 58 mm. F++. Big kitties!! Nice kitties, each with a slightly different pattern...Philippines...$5 (3 available)
....16648...(4)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....54 - 57 mm. F++. Good sized typical specimens...Philippines...$4 (4 available)
....27184...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....53 mm. F+. Big kitty in the light tan colour phase, unusually pale & nearly spot free dorsum...Tanzania...$5 (1 available)
....23424...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....53 mm. F++. Big cat! Nice kitty, with generously spotted dorsum...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....36131...(3)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....47 to 52 mm. F+++. Extremely pale local colour form, cream with a few brown spots, now unavailable due to hotel construction...Thailand...$5 (3 available)
....31004...(10)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....45 to 52 mm. F++. Bag full of bobcats! Typically spotted specimens...Philippines...$3 for 2 (10 available)
....27620...(1set)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....46 to 51 mm. F++. Great 5 piece pattern variation set...Philippines...$9 (1 set available)
....22363...(1pr)....Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....43 & 51 mm. F++. Extreme pair, one pink toned, the other blueish, showing the opposite ends of this population's variability...Philippines...$10 (1 pair available)
....16649...(3)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....49 - 50 mm. F++. Slightly smaller normal examples...Philippines...$3 (3 available)
....30879...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....48 mm. F++. It's lynx alright, but so heavily spotted it almost looks like a miniature tigris!...Thailand...$5 (1 available)
....23425...(2)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....44 to 47 mm. F++. Black spotted milky gray backs with orange between the teeth. Prime, fresh beauties...Philippines...$6 (2 available)
....28084...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....44 mm. F++. Distinctly spotted cat, with overclouding Dig it, Man!...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....32631...(1pr)....Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....31 & 39 mm. F++. Good pair shows variability of colour, pattern & size...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available)
....32003...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....29 mm. F+. Extreme freak, with labral injury causing open mouth effect & very pale dorsal spotting...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....32560...(9)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....24 to 27 mm. F++. Completely adult dwarf specimens...Philippines...$5 (9 available)
....7782...(1pr)....Cypraea lynx Linne 1758....22, 25 mm. F++ & Gem. pair, one typical, one elongated freak, with high apex and odd columellar teeth...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available)
....32004...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....24 mm. F++. Odd little dwarf specimen, speckled & elongated...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....29666...(1)...Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....22 mm. F+++. Freak form. lop-sided dwarf specimen with full dentition...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
....32704...(1)...Cypraea lynx fm. vanelli Linne, 1758....57 mm. F++. Large, light coloured form with minimal spotting...Philippines...$13 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea lynx Linne, 1758....59 & 60 mm. F++. Philippines. .....shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39229...(1)...Cyporaea maculifera Schilder, 1930....62 mm. F++. Big, well inflated specimens with heavy basal callus & dark columellar spot...Hawaii...$12 (1 available)
....38946...(2)...Cypraea maculifera Schilder, 1932....53, 56 mm. Gem. Flawless fully developed examples with distinctive columellar blotch...Hawaii...$25 (1 available)
....39230...(1)...Cypraea cf. maculifera Schilder, 1930....53 mm. F++. Good example from an unusual location...Mozambique...$8 (1 available)
....35184...(1)...Cypraea maculifera Schilder, 1932....53 mm. F+. Good sized example, with nice reticulate pattern, but a touch of dorsal wear...Hawaii...$6 (1 available)
....5587...(1)...Cypraea maculifera Schilder, 1932....50 mm. F++ Partly melanistic. Dark back & sides and elongate..Hawaii?...$40 price reduced to $30 (1 available)
....32475...(1)...Cypraea cf maculifera Schilder, 1932....43 mm. F++. Fully adult dwarf specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....16571...(1)...Cypraea maculifera Schilder,1932....38 mm. F++. Interesting! Brown columellar spot, but otherwise similar to C. depressa it is so small & flattened....Indonesia...$13 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea maculifera hawaiiensis Heiman, 2005....69, 70 mm. F+++. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea maculifera hawaiiensis Heiman, 2005....49, 51 mm. Gem. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
(We've got so many maps we could start our own Atlas)
....38947...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....91 mm. F+. Magnificent mutant monster! Has distinctly wrinkled dorsum, odd “dendritic” pattern, and purple tinted tips & base...Philippines...$38 (1 available)
....38948...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....84 mm. F+. Large, typically patterned example with purple tips & pink base. One chipped tip is partially self healed...Philippines...$32 (1 available)
....38949...(2)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....76, 78 mm. F++. Beautiful examples with totally classic sulcus & pretty pink tinted bases...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....38950...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Nicely inflated and partly melanistic specimen with purple tinted base & brown columellar spot...Philippines...$22 (1 available)
....30067...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....85, 86 mm. F+ high. Odd sulcus freaks, with blurred, indistinct sulcus line...Philippines...$13 (1 available)
....37938...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....85 mm. F++. Big, heavy & inflated, slightly freaky specimen with big clear patches on one side of the sulcus...Philippines?...$15 (1 available)
....29532...(1pr)....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....78 & 83 mm. F++. Odd & intruiging pair, Two shades of brown, two different shapes & two scrambled sulci...Philippines...$20 (1 pair available)
....29529...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....81 mm. F++. With odd white clouds along the sulcus line that reminds me of nebulae along the Milky Way...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....23332...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....80 mm. F++. Odd specimen with un-lobed sulcus line & strange dorsal pattern...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....30068...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....79 mm. F++. With mildly melanistic patch on the dorsum. Think of it like a birth mark!...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....5081...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....79 mm. F++ solid. Really unusual sulcus, and quite Globose! Phillipines...$12 (1 available)
....32639...(2)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....73 & 79 mm. F++. Pink based & purple tipped, with a long, lightly freaky, lateral extension of the sulcus...Philippines...$12 (2 available)
....32640...(2)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 & 79 mm. F++. Pretty pink based specimens with partly disrupted dorsal pattern...Philippines...$10 (2 available)
....23336...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....78 mm. F++. A bit of everything! Pink base, nice dorsal pattern & mildly freaky sulcus...Philippines...$9. (1 available)
....24126...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. 3 way sulcus freak, with wide, interesting side branch to the left margin...Philippines...$16 (1 available)
....23337...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. Strange blotchy dorsal pattern & wide sulcus with an island in it!...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....29531...(1pr)....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....76 & 77 mm. F++. Interesting pair, One very inflated & with complex sulcus, the other quite elongated, with nearly straight sulcus...Philippines...$27 (1 pair available)
....20866...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....76 mm. F++. Globose!! Quite hump-backed (No, it doesn't sing)...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....22074...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....74 mm. F++. Quite freaky! with strange, wandering, split sulcus & an unusual callous covering the central labral teeth...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....22364...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....74 mm. F+. Bizzare injury freak, with a ridge that becomes a groove across the dorsum...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....37596...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....72.5 mm. F++. Totally typical mappa with very pale teeth & classic sulcus line...Philippines...$13 (1 available)
....5082...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....72.5 mm. F++ solid. Odd small dark patches of very early melanism-good study shell!...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....28370...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....72 mm. F++. Completely classic example of the mappa mappa form with nicely defined sulcus...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....23338...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....72 mm. F++. Partly melanistic, with over-riding dark patches at anterior end & on apex...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....19698...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Interesting example with the sulcus displaced almost to the labral margin!...Philippines...$11 (1 pair available)
....32635...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. With mild melanism partly obscuring the sulcus...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....32636...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Totally unique example has ridge across the dorsum & sulcus that looks like a spalsh of milk caught on high speed film!...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....32638...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Classic example of the pretty, pink based colour form...Philippines...$11 (1 available)
....32573...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Mild-mannered minimally melanistic mappa. With black apical spot, several melanistic patches along the sulcus & a tan base with large brown spot on the columellar side...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....28407...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....69 mm. F++. Delightful blush pink base...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....18814...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....68.5 mm. F++. A freaky little specimen! Interupted sulcus, disrupted pattern on one side & a base with a large blotch & no orange on the teeth...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....33424...(2)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....67, 68 mm. F+ high. Mid-sized examples with light pink base. A couple of small dorsal irregularities...Philippines...$7 (2 available)
....33425...(1)....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....66 mm. F++. Partial melanism, with pattern over-printing on much of the dorsum...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....23334...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....66 mm. F++. Good globose shape, with dorsum splendidly overcasted and with pink-tinted base. Quite different!...Philippines...$17 (1 available)
....17690...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....63 mm. F++. STRANGE! The margins are dotted like fm. geographica, yet this is still the nominate form...Philippines....$20 (1 available)
....32644...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....62 mm. F++. Cute spots, and a well repaired dorsal injury has resulted in a flattened labral side & an elongated profile...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....24843...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....61 mm. F++. Space saver specimen! Perfect typical mappa....Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....19114...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....60 mm. F++. With Definitely Melanistic side patches, obscured sulcus, & lovely purple basal spot...Philippines...$20 (1 available)
....36544...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....60 mm. F+. Wild injury/growth freak looks like it has a hernia on the dorsum!...Philippines...$12
....22080...(1pr)....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....57 & 60 mm. F++. Semi-Dwarf pair, one with moderately degenerate dorsal pattern...Philippines...$18 (1 pair available)
....34728...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....55 mm. F++. Delightful completely classic dwarf specimen, fully adult & with pink, callused base...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....32641...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....55 mm. F++. Lightweight but adult dwarf...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....35575...(1)...Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....53 mm. F++. Immaculate, heavily-spotted dwarf specimen......Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....38362...(1)...Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....66 mm. F++. Good example of early melanism, with darkening & partial occlusion of the sulcus...Tanzania...$20 (1 available)
....37641...(1)...Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....80 mm. F++. Nice, big, globose example with orange teeth & classic sulcus...Tanzania...$25 (1 available)
....37644...(1)...Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....74 mm. F++. Interesting example has degenerate, partly obscured sulcus...Tanzania...$16 (1 available)
....37645...(1pr)....Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....67 & 68 mm. F++. Unusual pair, both adult, but one shows superior sulcus, pattern & spot development...Tanzania...$30 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....85, 86 mm. F+ high. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....81 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. Caroline Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....79 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....57 mm. F++. Thailand. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....76 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa fm. geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....74 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa geographica Schilder & Schilder, 1933....67 mm. F+++. Absolutely classic dorsal pattern. This one could be photographed for a Cyp book as a perfect representative of the form...Tanzani. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa fm. cf geographica Schilder & Schilder....48 mm. F+++. Fully adult dwarf with good, solid, heavy base...Sumatra. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea mappa rosea Gray, 1824....49 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36652...(1)...Cypraea margarita Dillwyn, 1817....15 mm. F++. Smooth & globular, with well beaked extremities...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....36261...(4)...Cypraea margarita Dillwyn, 1817....15 mm. F++. Pale, bulbous examples with great tips. No wasting away in Margaritaville here...Philippines...$10 (4 available)
SOLD....Cypraea margarita Dillwyn, 1817....15 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....29562...(1pr)....Cypraea marginalis Dillwyn, 1817....23 & 24 mm. F++. Light & dark colour phase pair of this pretty cowrie...Djibouti...$24 (1 pair available)
....32738...(6)...Cypraea martini Schepman, 1907....13 to 15 mm. F++. Fresh, dark, fine speckled specimens. Now you'll need an Oliva to go with your martini!...Philippines...$15 (6 available)
....31092...(7)...Cypraea martini Schepman, 1907....12 to 15 mm. F++. It's happy hour. Have a Martini! (see Olividae section for your olives)...Philippines...$30 (7 available)
....31155...(1)...Cypraea martini Schepman, 1907....14 mm. F++. Scarce species with extended tips & fine brown teeth. If you put it in water, would it no longer be a dry martini?...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....30725...(3)...Cypraea martini Schepman, 1907....12 to 14 mm. F++. Fresh & mature, with brown teeth & fine speckles...Philippines...SPECIAL!!...$14 (3 available)
SOLD....Cypraea martini Schepman, 1907....17.5 mm. Gem. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....28371...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....85 mm. F+ nicely. Though perhaps fresh dead, this big specimen shows strong melanism with "double struck" dorsal pattern...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....24471...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. Dark, clear, dorsal pattern with wide, heavy base...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....29535...(1pr)....Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....68 & 71 mm. F+ high. Both fully adult, solid, heavy based examples, one with great , well defined pattern the other with degenerate or retained juvenile pattern...Philippines...$9 (1 pair available)
....31873...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....70 mm. F++. Good typical specimen, though from an unusual locality...Taiwan...$4 (1 available)
....32270...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....68 mm. F++. Delightful "Northern Boy" specimen with a pattern reminiscent of C. histrio...Taiwan...$7 (1 available)
....32654...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....67 mm. F++. Good, dark, fairly typically patterned specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....23693...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....60 mm. F++. Dark dward with heavy melanism...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....32647...(1)...Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....53 mm. F++. Cute, typically patterned dwarf specimen...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea mauritiana Linne, 1758....96 mm. F+. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39097...(1)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....25 mm. F++. Neat, fully developed & well callused specimen of the deepwater form...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....32584...(1)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....45 mm. F++. Jumbo specimens, white spotted on shades of mustard...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
....30998...(1)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....47 mm. F++. Jumbo specimen!!...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....34602...(10)...Cypraea milliaris - forma?? Linne, 1758....35 to 45 mm. F++. Interesting deep water form with different spot pattern & reduced markings on the terminals, and coarser, less regular teeth...South China Sea...$6 (10 available)
....32001...(1)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....40 mm. F+ high. Serious dorsal injury freak with mishapen back & split sulcus pattern...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....30997...(4prs)....Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....36 to 40 mm. F+++. Nice large examples with lots of fine spots...Philippines...$5 (4 pairs available)
....28083...(1)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....39 mm. F++. Large, typically white speckled specimen...India...$5 (1 available)
....18561...(2)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....35 to 37 mm. F++/G. Nice normal greenish-tan with pale spots...Australia...$3 (2 available)
....30996...(3prs)....Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....31 to 35 mm. F+++. Colour pairs, one with greenish background, the other mustard yellow, covered in fine spots...Philippines...$5 (3 pairs available)
....32562...(9)...Cypraea milliaris Gmelin, 1791....23 to 26 mm. F++. Delightful dwarves! Hey Doc, Don't be Bashful, buy one & you'll be Happy, don't & you might be Grumpy...Philippines...$4 (9 available)
SOLD....Cypraea minoridens Melvill, 1901....11, 13 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....37688...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....35 mm. F++. Huge for the species and albinistic all white...Philippines...$13 (1 available)
....38514...(2)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....22, 23 mm. F++. Sulfur yellow backs & highly callused sides. Like little fried eggs!...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....32564...(1set)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....21 to 33 mm. F+/F++. Great 6 piece variation/freak set, with a nice large, typical example & a range of other dorsal colours & rostratism...Philippines...$20 new price (1 set available)
....24450...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....31 mm. F++. Greenish yellow backs & heavy marginal callus on these large examples...Zanzibar...$4 (1 available)
....37481...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....26 mm. F+. Sulfur yellow injury freak has generated a heavy, rostrate bassal callus...Tanzania...$15 (1 available)
....20640...(3sets)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758...18 to 26 mm. F++/Gem. Nice 5 piece sets show a range of colours, shapes & dorsal bands. Good display of variability...Transkei...$7 (3 sets available)
....20641...(15)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758...18 to 26 mm. F++/Gem. Good singles from this unusual locality...Transkei (S. Africa)...$3 for 3 (15 available)
....36414...(1set)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....15 to 26 mm. F++. Fascinating 12 piece study set of assorted structural freaks too diverse to descibe...Philippines...$35 (1 set available)
....15696...(1set)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....18 - 25 mm. F++. NICE set! Greenish with blue stripes...Philippines...$10 (1 set available)
....34686...(1set)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758 (#55 & 57)....20, 24 mm. F+. Interesting trio, one typically yellow with heavily callused base, one white with greenish, slightly flattened dorsum & one elongate & somewhat hump-backed...Philippines...$9 (1 set available)
....37830...(4)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....19 to 24 mm. F++. Bright yellow & slightly rostrate...”Indo Pacific”...$4 (4 available)
....33427...(1)....Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....23 mm. F++. Bright mustard yellow with heavily callused base...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....37479...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....22 mm. F+. Oddly "squashed" freak form...Tanzania...$6 (1 available)
....29344...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....22 mm. F+. Twisted toothless freak! Odd dorsal stain & complete lack of teeth, almost looks like Ovulidae...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....30727...(1pr)....Cypraea moneta freaks....19 & 22 mm. F+. Neat pair of ridge-backed freak forms, one resembles a Marginella & one a Cyphoma...Philippines...$17 (1 pair available)
....23428...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....21 mm. F++. Super-bright sulfur yellow!...Zanzibar...$4 (1 available)
....30729...(1)...Cypraea moneta....20 mm. F+. Freak, with dorsal hump so large that from one side it looks like a tiny C. hesitata howelli!...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....20227...(3)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....19 to 20 mm. F+. Unusual colour! Yellowish green with blue-gray bands...Sri Lanka...$4 (3 available)
....29345...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....19 mm. F+. With 3 greenish bands (like icterina form) & truly bizarre reflected lip callus...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....37829...(2)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....17 mm. F++. Dwarf, heavily rostrate, albino specimens. Wins the triple crown for Cypraea freaky!...”Indo Pacific”...$10 (2 available)
....29052..(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....17 mm. F++. Wildly freaky specimen, flattened, toothless & with wide open grin...Philippines...$20 new price (1 available)
....32632...(1pr)....Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....16 mm. F+. Dwarf freaky pair, one pastel yellow, one mis-shapen & greenish...Philippines...$5 (1 pair available)
....35525...(1)...Cypraea moneta Linne, 1758....14 mm. F++. Fully adult, well calloused absolutely cutest semi-dwarf (or is that just "small"?? You say potayto I say potahto...)...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....22197...(1)...Cypraea moneta fm. icterina Lamarck, 1810....36.5 mm. F+. Widely-grinning freak: large and sassy!! A good one...India...$11 (1 available)
....34356...(3)...Cypraea moneta fm. icterina Lamarck, 1810....35 to 36 mm. F++. Neat form, large & with thick marginal calluses, pastel yellow with greenish blue dorsal bands...Tanzania...$5 (3 available)
....23059...(3)...Cypraea moneta fm. icterina Lamark, 1810....33 - 35 mm. F++ solid to Gem. Great size, splendid examples of this distinct form of shell money!!....Zanzibar...$7 (3 available)
....4011...(1)...Cypraea moneta fm. icterina Lamark, 1810....22 mm. Gem. Snow white with greenish banded dorsum...Japan...$6 (1 available)
....38951...(1)...Cypraea mus Linne, 1758....42 mm. F++. Great example with all the features: dorsal spot & “warts”, reduced teeth & brown columellar stain...Venezuela...$24 (1 available)
....35785...(1)...Cypraea mus fm. donmoorei Petuch, 1979....55 mm. F++. Big, fully formed & developed specimen with classic pattern...Venezuela...$60 (1 available)
....37936...(1)...Cypraea mus fm. donmoorei Petuch, 1979....54 mm. F++. Nice sized example with massive basal callus, black teeth & twin dorsal “warts”...Venezuela...$45 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea mus Linne, 1758....41 mm. F++. Venezuela. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
NEW....39459...(9)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....26 to 34 mm. F++. Lovely white spotted fawn backs & brown lined bases...Somalia...$5 (9 available3)
NEW....39536...(1set)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....23 to 28 mm. F++. Interesting 3 piece set shows a range of adult sizes, shapes, background colours and patterns...Somalia...$20 (1 set available)
NEW....39535...(9)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....20 to 26 mm. F++. Nicely speckled & spotted specimens of this Arabian endemic...Somalia...$6 (9 available)
NEW....39418...(6)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....22 to 25 mm. F++. Single specimens with dark lateral spots...Somalia...$5 (6 available)
NEW....39417...(1pr)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....23 mm. F++. Extreme light & dark pair...Somalia...$9 (1 pair available)
NEW....39419...(1)...Cypraea nebrites Melvill, 1888....18 mm. F++. Dark dwarf. Not to be confused with a “World of Warcraft” character...Somalia...$6 (1 available)
....39231...(1)...Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1872....45 mm. F++. Nice example, found in a batch of hundreds of C. vitellus...Philippines...$24 (1 available)
....28911...(1)...Cypraea nivosa Broderip, 1827....48 mm. F++. Fine, chubby specimen of this former rarity...Thailand...$20 (1 available)
....36135...(4)...Cypraea nivosa Broderip. 1827....40 to 45 mm. F+++. Nice nivosas! clearly spotted & coloured like a new fawn...Thailand...$25 (4 available)
SOLD....Cypraea nivosa Broderip. 1827....57 mm. F++. Thailand. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea nucleus Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Hawaii...........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea nucleus Linne, 1758....20 to 22 mm. F++. Philippines. ..........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....27537...(2)...Cypraea obvelata Lamarck, 1819....17 to 18 mm. Gem. Like an overinflated C. annulus...Polynesia...$3 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea obvelata Lamarck, 1819....22 to 23 mm. Gem. Looks like C. annulus with a swollen alergic histamine reaction...Polynesia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
NEW....39460...(1set)...Cypraea ocellata Linne, 1758....27, 31 & 34 mm. F++. Interesting size & pattern variation set, all adults yet different in size & spot pattern...Somalia...$8 (1 set available)
NEW....39416...(2)...Cypraea ocellata Linne, 1758....24 mm. F++. Nicely spotted specimens from the western edge of its range...Somalia...$4 (2 available)
....33115...(1)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....46 mm. F+ high. Huge example with unusual "clouding" on dorsum, though with a touch of discolouration on the base...Thailand...$10 (1 available)
....33116...(4)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....40 to 44 mm. F+ high/F++. Good sized specimens. Supplier seems to think they may be an unnamed local form...Thailand...$6 (4 available)
....33428...(1)....Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....41 mm. F++. Good sized typical specimen...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....22802...(1set)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....38 to 40 mm. F++. 3 piece set, all mature, showing development of full lateral to dorsal callous...Philippines...$7 (1 set available)
....33117...(4)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....33 to 38 mm. F+ high. Smaller examples of what our supplier calls the Pattani form. (I think he's a splitter!)...Thailand...$4 (4 available)
....27539...(1)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....37 mm. F++. Brown base with contrasting cream coloured dorsal callus...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....22803...(1)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....31 mm. F++. Fully adult dwarf specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....32566...(1)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Dwarf specimen with totally adult dorsal pattern & dark, fully toothed base...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....33118...(1)...Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....26 mm. F++. Fully adult dwarf specimen...$7 (1 available)
....31787...(1)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....48 mm. F+. Large & dark, but with a few dorsal growth lines...Thailand...$4 (1 available)
....23562...(2)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....42 to 44 mm. F++. Solid chocolate brown...Zanzibar...$6 (2 available)
....37478...(+)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....37 to 44 mm. F++/Gem. Fresh, shiny chocolate brown examples of this East African form...Tanzania...$6 (lots available)
....30331..(1)....Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....43 mm. F++. Dark chocolate brown...Kenya...$5 (1 available
....25839...(1)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....42 mm. F++. Rich, deep red-brown throughout...Tanzania...$6 (1 available)
....31875...(2)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....42 mm. F+ high. Rich brown but with some blistering of the dorsum...Tanzania...$6 (2 available)
....6348.....(1)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamark, 1810....39 mm. F++. Well-adusted! Good and dark..Zanzibar..$4 (1 available)
....23563...(2)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....35 to 36 mm. F++. Possibly semi-dwarf. smaller than any listed...Zanzibar...$5 (2 available)
....33982...(1)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....33 mm. F++. With black base & coffee brown dorsum. Rare in this locality...Thailand...$5 (1 available)
....34427...(2)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....29 to 33 mm. F++. Fresh, dark brown examples of this scarce dwarf form...Thailand...$7 (2 available)
....33120...(1)...Cypraea onyx fm. adusta Lamarck, 1810....28 mm. F++. Semi-dwarf specimen of this dark colour form...$7 (1 available)
....39232...(2)...Cypraea onyx fm. onyx Linne, 1758....38, 41 mm. F++. With Chocolate brown base & tan banded backs. Not as dark as the adusta form...Philippines...$4 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....45 to 48 mm. F++. Philippines........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea onyx Linne, 1758....45 to 47 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....18566...(1)...Cypraea ovum fm. chrysostoma Schilder, 1927....26 mm. F+++. With orange teeth...Papua New Guinea...$4 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea ovum Gmelin, 1791....32 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
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....33958...(12)...Cypraea pallida Gray, 1824....23 to 27 mm. F++. Fully adult & decent sized specimens with light or absent dorsal blotch...Thailand...$3 or $5 for 2 (12 available)
....39233...(1)...Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786....52 mm. F++. Delightful example, almost albinistic it is so pale, but with lots of fine purple-brown spots...Red Sea...$10 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786....77 mm. Gem. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1786....67 mm. F+. ex col. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36759...(1)...Cypraea poraria Linne, 1758....16.5 mm. Gem. Fresh, super dark example with bright lilac base!...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....36571...(2)...Cypraea pulicaria Reeve, 1846....16.5 mm. F++. Scarce wee Aussis with 3 rows of fine tan specks...Australia...$15 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea pulicaria Reeve, 1846....18 mm. F++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38504...(1)...Cypraea pyriformis Gray, 1824....26 mm. Gem. Odd example has a somewhat dis-placed dorsal spot...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....36735...(1)...Cypraea pyriformis Gray, 1824....30 mm. Gem. Great fully developed example with neat square dorsal blotch...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....33361...(1)...Cypraea pyriformis Gray, 1824....30 mm. F+. Nicely swollen specimen with pale dorsum & tan teeth...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....23694...(5)...Cypraea pyriformis Gray, 1824....23 to 26 mm. F++. Brown banded back & columellar teeth...Philippines...$5 (5 available)
....32567...(1)...Cypraea pyriformis Gray, 1824....24 mm. F++. Interesting dwarf specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....37601...(1)...Cypraea pyrum Gmelin, 1791....35 mm. F++. Glorious example with bright orange base...Greece...$5 (1 available)
....28409...(1set)...Cypraea pyrum Gmelin, 1791....32, 33 & 35 mm. F+ to F++. Nice 3 piece set shows developemental stages of basal callus & dorsal pattern...Italy...$15 (1 set available)
....26129...(1)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....47 mm. F++. Jumbo example, well matured & hopefully bigger than any you have already...South China Sea...$42 (1 available)
....26130...(1)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....45 mm. F++. Almost rostrate, with elongated syphonal canal & extended labral callous...South China Sea...$33 (1 available)
....26131...(2)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....40 to 43 mm. F++. Delightful specimens, with brown tips & basal teeth...South China Sea...$20 (2 available)
....31881...(1pr)....Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....36 & 40 mm. F++. Comparison pair, one with minimal dorsal spotting, the other with lots of dark brown markings...Taiwan...$28 (1 pair available)
....22177A..(2)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....37, 38 mm. F+++. BIG!!...India...$13 (2 available)
....22780...(3)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....33 to 38 mm. F++. Nicely spotted & with long brown teeth...India...$10 (3 available)
....32271...(2)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....35, 36 mm. F++. Nicely mature, with well spotted lateral callus & strong dorsal blotches...Taiwan...$12 (2 available)
....22177...(2)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....34 to 36 mm. F++ to Gem. Fresh, large & fat, with bold brown teeth & dorsal blotch...India...$10 (2 available)
....31701...(2)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....34, 35 mm. F+++. Fresh, fully developed specimens with strong brown dorsal blotch and long brown teeth...Philippines...$15 (2 available)
....23573...(4)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....30 to 34 mm. F++. Striking brown basal teeth...Taiwan...$25 (4 available)
....33471...(1set)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....25 to 34 mm. F++. 5 piece set covers the range of sizes, dorsal patterns & brown columellar tooth length...Taiwan...$44 (1 set available)
....25692...(5prs)....Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....29 to 33 mm. F++. High-contrast pairs of this attractive species - for the price of one!!...India...$11 (5 pairs available)
....36744...(1)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....30 mm. F++. Good example with long brown teeth...Philippines...$17 (1 available)
....31447...(1)...Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....23 mm. F++. Fully adult example at a kiddie-meal price...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....32187...(1)...Cypraea pulchella fm. pericalles Melvill & Standen, 1904....32 mm. F++. With reduced brown dorsal spot...India...$12 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea pulchella Swainson, 1823....41 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....5534...(1)...Cypraea pyrum petitiana Crosse, 1872....20 mm. Gem. Dwarf form with pastel calloused base...Senegal...$10 (1 available)
....32422...(1)...Cypraea quadrimaculata Gray, 1824....24 mm. F++. Fully adult, with gray back & 2 black spots at each end...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....37158...(1)...Cypraea quadrimaculata Gray, 1824....22 mm. F+ high. Good example with 2 distinct spots at each end...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....38952...(1)...Cypraea rabaulensis Schilder, 1964....19 mm. F++. Fawn, with brown spiral lines & brown marginal spots...Philippines...$55 (1 available)
....38953...(1)...Cypraea rabaulensis Schilder, 1964....17 mm. F++. Nice example of this scarce little cowrie...Philippines...$45 (1 available)
....37411...(1)...Cypraea rabaulensis Schilder, 1964....17.5 mm. F++. Pinkish-tan with 3 thin brown spiral lines & brown spotted cream coloured lip...Philippines...$65 (1 available)
....36569...(1)...Cypraea reevei Sowerby, 1832....38 mm. F+ high. Well inflated, with typically scarred but fully healed & smooth dorsum highlighted by hot pink tips...Australia...$65
....27443...(1)...Cypraea reevei Sowerby, 1832....28 mm. F+. Starter specimen, slightly juvenile with dorsal scar...Australia...$15 (1 available)....32942...(3)...Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....26 to 28 mm. F++. Good specimens, on the large side for this species...Peru...$5 (3 available)
....31702...(1)...Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....26 to 28 mm. F+++. Chubby, broad based specimens. You've got to have one of these, especially if your name is Roberts...Panama...$5 (1 available)
....37557...(+)...Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....24 - 26 mm. F++. Nicely mature, spotted & speckled specimens of this regional endemic...Panama...$3 (lots available)
....32100...(4prs)....Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....22 to 25 mm. F++. Delightful examples, paired for your enjoyment...Panama...$5 (4 pairs available)
....31703...(1)...Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....22 mm. F++. Slightly small but fully adult example...Panama...$3 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....24 & 25 mm. F++. Panama. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea robertsi Hidalgo, 1906....19 to 20 mm. F++. Costa Rica. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
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SOLD....Cypraea sanguinolenta Gmelin, 1791....18 mm. F++. Senegal........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36653...(1)...Cypraea sakurai Habe, 1970...46 mm. F (fresh dead). BARGAIN! Fully adult example of this rare Cypraea, though with a slightly dull dorsal surface (Rice lists 7 example from $375 to $1320!)...Philippines...$200 (1 available)
....33501...(1pr)....Cypraea saulae forms Gaskoin, 1843....20 & 28 mm. F++. Neat pair! 2 local forms of this variable & often split species: C. saulae visayensis Massilia, 1978 & C saulae siasiensis Cate, 1960...Philippines...$27 (1 pair available)
....31000...(2)...Cypraea saulae Gaskoin, 1843....26, 27 mm. F++. Big, boldly spotted specimens...Philippines...$20 (2 available)
....31704...(14)...Cypraea saulae Gaskoin, 1843....23 to 27 mm. F++/Gem. Lots of BIG, prime, nicely spotted specimens...Philippines...SPECIAL!!!...$10 each or $22 for a delightful set of 3 (14 available)
....30999...(7)...Cypraea saulae Gaskoin, 1843....21 to 24 mm. F++. Sweet & saucy saulaes, marginally spotted & dorsally blotched...Philippines...SPECIAL!!...$13 (7 available)
....31088...(1)...Cypraea saulae Gaskoin, 1843....20 mm. F++. With bold brown dorsal blotch & fine peripheral spots...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....29349...(1)...Cypraea cf. saulae Gaskoin, 1843....19 mm. F++. Creamy tan with just a thin wisp of a brown dorsal spot...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....22090...(2)...Cypraea saulae Gaskoin, 1843....18 to 19 mm. Gem. Great examples at a good price...Philippines...$10 (2 available)
....36753...(1)...Cypraea saulae fm. siasiensis Cate, 1960....24 mm. Gem. With single compact dorsal spot...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....37417...(1)...Cypraea saulae fm. siasiensis Cate, 1960....19 mm. F++. Smaller local form with one squarish dorsal blotch & fine lateral specks on ivory white...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....35407...(1)...Cypraea saulae fm. visayensis Massilia, 1978....27 mm. F++. Good, big, ivory white with 2 brown dorsal spots...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....30077...(2)...Cypraea saulae fm. visayensis Massilia, 1978....22 to 25 mm. F++. With large, dark, multiple dorsal spots...Philippines...$9 (2 available)
....36749...(1)...Cypraea saulae fm. visayensis Massilia, 1978....21.5 mm. F++. The typical Philippine form, with 2 distinct nearly round dorsal spots...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....33882...(1)...Cypraea saulae fm. visayensis Massilia, 1978....21 mm. F++. Nice specimens of the Masbate Island form with clearly deliniated, single spot...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea saulae siasiensis Cate, 1960....22 mm. F++. Philippines........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....34158...(2)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....44 to 47 mm. F++. Big, fat examples, fully adult, with lots of fine brown teeth...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....27857...(4)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....37 to 46 mm. F++. Fresh, dark specimens, blue-gray with brown reticulation...Tanzania...$5 (4 available)
....32575...(1)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....44 mm. F++. Nice sized, fairly typically spotted specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....29570...(1)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....44 mm. F++. With oddly degenerate dorsal pattern similar to arabica...Djibouti...$7 (1 available)
....32421...(1)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....43 mm. F++. Good size for the species & with paler than average dorsal pattern...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....18571...(3)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....35 to 42 mm. F++. Nice, clearly spotted examples...Solomon Islands...$4 (3 available)
....20868...(1pr)....Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....41 mm. F+++. Extreme pair. One with reduced lateral spots & a blue back, the other typically side spotted but with reduced dorsal pattern...Zanzibar...$9 (1 pair available)
....18852...(1)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....40 mm. F++. Large & dark, with basal blotches & crowded dorsal spots...Zanzibar...$5 (1 available)
....22211...(9sets)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....33 to 40 mm. F+++. High contrast sets of three....Zanzibar...$9 (9 sets available)
....5603A...(2sets)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....37 - 39 mm. F++. High-contrast set of 3...Philippines...$11 (2 sets available)
....5603...(1)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....37 mm. F++. Classic...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....20605...(3)...Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....33 to 35 mm. F++. Fresh, dark East African singles...Zanzibar...$3 (3 available)
....18853...(3)...Cypraea scurra fm. scurra Gmelin, 1791....36 to 39 mm. F++. Rich blue-gray with brown reticulate pattern & teeth. Nice specimens!...Zanzibar...$3 (3 available)
SOLD....Cypraea scurra Gmelin, 1791....40 mm. Gem. Solomon Is. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38954...(1)...Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845....16 mm. F++. Matches the orange coloured dwarf variety shown in plate 99 fig. 16 of Lorenz & Hubert...Hawaii...$65 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845....16 mm. Gem. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea semiplota Mighels, 1845....13 mm. Gem. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39165...(1)...Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....55.5 mm. F++. Lovely jumbo specimen...California...$15 (1 available)
....37941...(1)...Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....55 mm. F++. Big, well developed example has white lateral margins nearly covering the dorsum...California...$15 (1 available)
....26121...(2)...Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....47 to 49 mm. F++. Fresh, dark, good sized singles...California...$6 (2 available)
....31705...(1)...Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....38 mm. F++. Fresh specimens of this Californian Cowrie with rich brown backs & pure white bases...California...$6 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....59 mm. F++. California. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....45, 48 mm. F++. California. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....40 mm. F++. California. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea spadicea Swainson, 1823....39 mm. F++. California. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38955...(1)...Cypraea spurca Linne, 1758....25 mm. Gem. The nominate form, creamy white with a few yellow specks...Israel...$10 (1 available)
....38956...(3)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....25 to 27 mm. F++. Jumbo specimens, more inflated & yellow speckled than the nominate form...Florida...$25 (3 available)
....38957...(3)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....24 mm. F++. Good sized examples with callus base & yellow speckles...Florida...$18 (3 available)
....38958...(3)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....22 to 23 mm. F++. Good, fully mature, yellow speckled examples of the form...Florida...$12 (3 available)
....24038...(2)...Cypraea spurca Linne, 1758....21, 22 mm. F++. Nice, clean specimens with fine, dense dorsal spotting...Canary Islands...$5 (2 available)
....37244...(1)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....26.5 mm. Gem. Huge for the species, glossy white with pastel yellow dorsal speckling...Florida...$35 (1 available)
....31885...(1set)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....16 to 25 mm. F++. Special 6 piece growth study, all fully adult...Florida...$20 (1 set available)
....37828...(2)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....21, 23 mm. F++. With white base & yellow-orange speckled dorsum...Florida...$5 (2 available)
....31936...(1set)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....18, 20 & 23 mm. F+/F++. Neat little 3 piece series from early tooth stage to full, heavy based maturity...Puerto Rico...$10 (1 set available)
....24338...(6prs)....Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....15 to 22 mm. F++ to Gem. Excellent pairs of contrasting specimens...Curacao...$8 (6 pairs available)
....2904...(1set)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....14.5 - 22 mm. F++ to Gem. Excellent set of 6, for study or display. ...Honduras...$20 (1 set available)
....30730...(2)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....17, 21 mm. F++. Fully mature, with solid, wide white base...Guadeloupe...$9 (2 available)
....36651...(1)...Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....19 mm. F++. Pastel yellow speckled dorsum & fully thickened white basal callus...Puerto Rico...$7 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea spurca fm. acicularis Gmelin, 1791....19 & 21 mm. F++. Florida. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....34242...(2)...Cypraea staphylaea Linne, 1758....11, 12 mm. F+. Dwarfish examples, palest gray & finely pustulose, with orange tips...New Guinea...$3 (2 available)
....36742...(1)...Cypraea staphylaea fm. descripta Iredale, 1955....16 mm. F++. Smoother, paler & more inflated than the typical form...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....23437...(1)...Cypraea staphylaea fm. laevigata Dautzenberg, 1932....15 mm. F+++. Good examples of this African form..Zanzibar...$5 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea staphylaea fm. laevigata Dautzenberg, 1932....25 mm. F+/F++. India. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39236...(1)...Cypraea stercoraria Linne, 1758....67 mm. F++. Good ex col. example with red-brown spotted dorsum and intact tips...”West Africa”...$22 (1 available)
....31944...(1)...Cypraea stercoraria Linne, 1758....86 mm. F+ high. Large & well developed, with dark base & freaky whitish clouding covering over 3/4 of the dorsum...Senegal...$40 (1 available)
....31945...(1)...Cypraea stercoraria Linne, 1758....85 mm. F+ high. Excellent freak example, with opaque dorsal clouding a-la-griseoformis...Senegal...$55 (1 available)
....31941...(1)...Cypraea stercoraria Linne, 1758....80 mm. F+. Good sized specimen with very dark, even lightly melanistic dorsum & tan base...Senegal...$18 (1 available)
....25769...(1)...Cypraea stercoraria Linne, 1758....79 mm. F+ high. FREAK!! Dorsum coated with a gray-green glaze. Naturally healed slight damage...Senegal...$40 (1 available)
....36750...(1)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....27 mm. F++. Nice large example with big, square dorsal blotch...Philippines...$7 (1 available)
....30951...(1)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....30 mm. F++. Very pale blueish-white dorsum with clear & dark brown spot...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....35069...(1)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....29 mm. F++. Great specimen with big, square dorsal blotch...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....29053...(2)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....26, 29 mm. F++. Nice specimens of the nominate form...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....31853...(3)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....26 mm. F++. Fine typical examples...Philippines...$4 (3 available)
....36426...(1)....Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....25 mm. F+++. Fully mature specimen with well developed teeth covering much of the base...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....31087...(2)...Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....21, 25 mm. F++. Cute examples, fully adult & typically patterned...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....34164...(1)....Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....23 mm. F++. Just one large dorsal spot...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....20869...(1)....Cypraea stolida fm. crossei Marie, 1869....24 mm. F+++. Blue-gray back with dark, double square dorsal spot...New Caledonia...$20 (1 available)
....34358...(1)...Cypraea stolida fm. crossei Marie, 1869....22 mm. F+++. Fully mature, completely "classic" example of this form - nice!...New Caledonia...$28 (1 available)
....35980...(1)...Cypraea stolida fm. kwajalienensis Martin & Senders, 1983....26 mm. F++. Size BIGGIE specimen of this well patterned form...Kwajalien...$160 or best offer (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea stolida Linne, 1758....25 to 28 mm. F++/Gem. Solomon Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....30858...(2)...Cypraea cf. subteres Weinkauff, 1881....27, 28 mm. F++. Cream-gray with 3 bands of tan markings, sunken apex & faintly rostrate posterior end. Scarce polynesian species...Hawaii...$85 (2 available)
....38959...(1)...Cypraea subviridis dorsalis Schilder & Schilder, 1938....36 mm. Gem. Large for the form, lightly speckled in tan...Australia...$15 (1 available)
....16572...(1)...Cypraea subviridis Reeve, 1835....25, 32 mm. F++. Lovely pastel blueish-green with brown dorsal mark...Indonesia...$3 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea subviridis Reeve, 1855....23 to 24 mm. F++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....35983...(1)...Cypraea sulcidentata Gray, 1834....40 mm. F++. Good, big, lightly banded & well callused specimen...Hawaii...$27 (1 available)
....35984...(1)...Cypraea sulcidentata Gray, 1834....32 mm. F++. Fine, fully adult & well inflated example...Hawaii...$15 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea sulcidentata Gray, 1824....33 mm. Gem. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....27103...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....89 mm. F++. Interesting monster specimen with a partly interrupted dorsal pattern oddity...Tanzania...$25 (1 available)
....34748...(2)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....82 mm. F++. Totally titannic talpas! Huge examples with black base & dark brown dorsal banding...Philippines...$15 (2 available)
....37103...(2)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....81 mm. F++. Terrific, toasted, titanic talpa...Tanzania...$22 (1 available)
....19818...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....78 mm. F+ high. BIG! Larger than average, with nice dorsal banding...Philippines...$7 (1 available)...19820...(1set)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....71 to 77 mm. F+ high. 3 Big, increasingly dark banded specimens, the darkest one is nearly black with 3 tan lines!...Philippines...$16 (1 set available)
....37104...(3)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....71 to 73 mm. F++. Big, black based & brown banded beauties...Tanzania...$12 (1 available)
....36217...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....68 mm. F++. NICE!!! Unusually dark example with wider than normal dorsal banding...Philippines....$20 (1 available)
....32645...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....67 mm. F+. Injury has produced a white scar across the dorsum & deformities to the base...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....37105...(4)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....66 to 67 mm. F++. Good sized specimens with super dark banding, almost like C. adusta...Tanzania...$10 (1 available)
....36636...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....65 mm. F+. Thoroughly toasted talpa! Extra dark specimen with the pale dorsal bands reduced to three narrow paler lines...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....36534...(2)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....61, 64 mm. F++. Typically sized but much more heavily banded & darker than usual. These moles are definitely on the dark dark side...Tanzania...$9
....29852...(1pr)....Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....59 mm. F++. Interesting pair showing different shades of dorsal banding...Philippines...$4 (1 pair available)
....29347...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....58 mm. F++. Unusual pattern of dorsal axial stripes...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....30559...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....54 mm. F++. Smallish specimen with rich brown base & dorsal bands...Solomon Islands...$3 (1 available)
....28196...(1)...Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....51 mm. F++. Dark dwarf specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....92 mm. F++. Philippines........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....49 mm. Gem. Thailand. ......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea talpa Linne, 1758....49 mm. F++. Djibouti. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....36032...(1)....Cypraea cf. teres Gmelin, 1791....20 mm. F++. Interesting dwarf specimen with a big central spot reminiscent of C. saulae...Philippines...$10 (1 available
....32627...(1)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....35, 37 mm. F++. Nice big examples with strong brown dorsal blotch...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....28194...(1)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....31 mm. F++. A rare olive-green!!!...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....28661...(1)...Cypraea cf. teres Gmelin, 1791....12 mm. F++. Dwarf form or another species, you decide...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....27549...(1)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....35 mm. F++. Elongated, with diffuse brown dorsal spot...New Caledonia...$6 (1 available)
....18857...(1pr).....Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....28 to 35 mm. F++. Light blue-gray with broken brown band & dark gray lip spots. Good specimens of the African form...Zanzibar...$4 (1 pair available)
....12640...(1)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791...24 mm. Gem. Gray with brown dorsal splotch...Hawaii...$3 (1 available)
....23588...(3)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1781....24 to 27 mm. Gem. Prime, shiny typical form examples...Solomon Is...$3 (3 available)
....31888...(1set)....Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....32 to 34 mm. F++. Good little set of 3, showing variations of dorsal brown markings...Philippines...$10 (1 set available)
....34730...(1)...Cypraea teres Gmelin, 1791....32 mm. F++. With thickened, black spotted labral callus...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....35977...(3)...Cypraea teres fm. pellucens Melvill, 1888....34 to 36 mm. F+++. Big examples of the form...Hawaii...$15 (3 available)
....23442...(1)...Cypraea teres fm. pelucens Gmelin, 1791....30 mm. F+++. Purple-black marginal spots offset the brown & blue-gray backs. Possibly an African form...Zanzibar...$8 (1 available)
....35976...(1pr)....Cypraea teres fm. pellucens Melvill, 1888....29 mm. F+++. Nice pair of typical examples, showing variability of dorsal bands & spots...Hawaii...$20 (1 pair available)
....24733...(1set)...Cypraea teres fm. pellucens Melvill, 1888....28 to 29 mm. Gem. Beautiful sets of three...Zanzibar...$20 (1 set available)
....6319...(2)...Cypraea teres fm. pellucens Melvill, 1888....27 - 28 mm. Gem. Normals....Zanzibar..$8 (2 available)
....31939...(1)...Cypraea teres fm. pellucens Melvill, 1888....23 mm. F++. Nice Hawaiian specimen...Hawaii...$12 (1 available)
....30954...(1)...Cypraea teres fm. teres Gmelin, 1791....27 mm. F++. With brown dorsal mottling arranged into 3 bands...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....36559...(2)...Cypraea tessellata Swainson, 1822....31, 32 mm. F+. Decent but fresh dead starter specimens of this scarce endemic species...Hawaii...$20 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea tessellata Swainson, 1822....31 to 32 mm. F+. Hawaii. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....35729...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....127 mm. F++. Glorious typically patterned jumbo specimen...Philippines...$20 (1 available) (Oversize)
....37942...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....112 mm. F++. Big, heavy example with typical finely white speckled surface...Ex col.?...$15 (1 available)
....37101...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....125 mm. F++. Big, beautiful, dark mottled specimen...Tanzania...$32 (1 available)
....36405...(1)....Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....125 mm. F+++. Large, lovely example, rich brown blotched & so covered in fine white specks it looks a bit like the Milky Way...Tanzania...$25 (1 available)
....37102...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....123.5 mm. F++. Nice, large, well inflated, typically patterned premium example...Tanzania...$30 (1 available)
....23486..(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....127 mm. F+/F++. Huge, fresh & shiny, but with a few pits on the dorsal midline...Zanzibar...$30 (1 available) OVERSIZE
....34760...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....118 mm. F++. Good sized typically patterned prime specimen...Philippines...$23 (1 available)
....18329...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....118 mm. F++. Good sized typical specimen...Philippines...$15 ( (1 available)
....35730...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....117 mm. F++. Beautiful classic example of this big, heavy, dark patterned Cowrie......Philippines...$18 (1 available) OVERSIZE
....5018....(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....116 mm. F++. Good large example...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....29533...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....116 mm. F++. Big, dark brown & well developed specimen with so much of the characteristic white speckling, it looks like a chocolate donut coated in sugar!...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....30070...(1pr)....Cypraea testudinaria Linne.1758....112 & 116 mm. F++. Ross said "make these a pair." Shows nice variation of dorsal blotching...Philippines...$29 (1 pair available)
....30503...(2)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....111, 106 mm. F++. Get one of these terrific tortoises before they crawl away...Indonesia...$7 (2 available)
....29054...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....95 mm. F. Supplied as a "Argus devoid of spots", its really an interesting sub-adult testudinaria, showing a lightly banded pale tan background colour before it develops the dark brown spotting...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....37591...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....94 mm. F+ high. Interesting specimen, a bit less than average size, posssibly due to a well healed thumbprint sized & shaped dorsal dent...ex col...$7 (1 available)
....31889...(1)...Cypraea testudinaria Linne, 1758....85 mm. F++. Almost a dwarf for this specie! Solid & heavy base...Tanzania...$7 (1 available)
NEW....39462...(1)...Cypraea teuleri Cazenavette, 1846....45 mm. F++. Great example of this toothless cowrie with twin brown dorsal blotches...Oman...$29 (1 available)
....38961...(2)...Cypraea teuleri Cazenavette, 1846....51, 52 mm. F++. Large, lightly spotted specimens with a thin white dorsal glaze...Arabia...$19 (2 available)
....39235...(2)...Cypraea teuleri Cazevanette, 1846....48, 49 mm. F++. Big examples with diffused brown dorsal blotch...Arabia...$15 (2 available)
....38962...(2)...Cypraea teuleri Cazenavette, 1846....46, 47 mm. F++. Intriguing! Labral spots are dimpled like a golf ball!...Arabia...$15 (2 available)
....39234...(3)...Cypraea teuleri Cazevanette, 1846....43 to 45 mm. F++. Great specimens of this toothless cowrie with bold brown dorsal blotches...”Arabia”...$12 (3 available)
....37943...(1)...Cypraea teuleri Cazenavette, 1846....46 mm. F++. Decent specimen of this toothless Persian Gulf endemic...Oman?...$15 (1 available)
....38960...(1)...Cypraea thersites Gaskoin, 1849....74 mm. F+. With a hump like a dromedary camel! Bargain on this scarce specie due to dorsal scar...Australia...$50 (1 available)
....38365...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....114 mm. F++. With lots of brown spots on a yellow background, it would be more appropriately named for a leopard, not a tiger! Big & well inflated...Tanzania...$35 (1 available)
....38366...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....113 mm. F++. Massive monster with lots of dark spots & an unusually wide aperture...Tanzania...$40 (1 available)
....38367...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....84, 85 mm. F+. With rough, greenish-gray callus across the entire dorsum. We call them “potato cowries”...Tanzania...$15 (1 available)
....37471...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....114 mm. F+. Massively callus based specimen (some might even say rostrate!) with partial dorsal glaze from early "potatoism"...Tanzania...$65 (1 available)
....35731...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....112 mm. F++. Huge example of the uncommon yellow form. Reminds me of leopard prints!......Philippines...$85 (1 available) (Oversize)
....20397...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....(ventrum)....100 mm. F+. Very freaky, with extended gaping anterior canal. This & 20396 would make a totally wild pair...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....17890...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....96 mm. F++. FREAK!! Big injury freak with lumpy dorsum and stumpy wing on labrum side. Very odd!...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....36752...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....92 mm. Gem. Wild pattern freak could be called form schizophrenia for its split personality! One side of the sulcus fairly normal tigris spot pattern, the other side of the sulcus fairly typical pardalis pattern of smaller, lighter brown spots on a paler dorsum. Surely unique & very strange!...Philippines...$45 (1 available)
....31024...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....92 mm. F+. Great injury freak: labral side of dorsum with massive repaired injury...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....37946...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....91 mm. F++. Unusual colour form, with yellow background & deep orange sulcus...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....37098...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....91 mm. F+. Freak of the "potato" variety, with heavy whitish dorsal callus...Tanzania...$22 (1 available)
....31022...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....91 mm. F+. Interesting injury freak with extended & twisted anterior canal...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....26344...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....91 mm. F+ solid. Large & freakish, with thick & heavy double ridged dorsal callus & rostrate posterior...Tanzania...$35 (1 available)
....31021...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....89 mm. F++. FREAK!! Large dorsal "wart" gives it an effect similar to C. mus bicornis...Philippines...$22 (1 available)
....36535...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....88 mm. F+ (freak) Massive, heavily callused & overglazed freak specimen sometimes referred to as a "potato cowrie"...Tanzania...$29
....32970...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....88 mm. F++. Raised dark patch like a birthmark, virtually identical to "Lorenz & Hubert's Cowries" plate 107, fig. 11...Tanzania...$25 (1 available)
....27733...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....88 mm. F+. Freak specimen with "big grin" wide apperture. Looks a bit like a juvenile but is a solid, heavy, fully spotted adult...Tanzania...$25 (1 available)
....19767...(3)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....78 to 88 mm. F+. Freak forms! probably due to early injury, they look a bit like loaves of bread that fell in the oven...Philippines...$10 (3 available)
....19703...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....77, 88 mm. F+. Sulcus freaks! Odd split & twisted sulcus lines...Philippines...$15 (2 available)
....28412...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....85, 87 mm. F++. Large, lusciously dark spotted specimens...Philippines...$10 (2 available)
....16656...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....85.5 mm. F+ high. Elongate shape & different colour pattern resembles C. pantherina...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....32669...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....70, 83 mm. F++. Elongated freaks, with twisted lip & gaping apperture...Philippines...$6 (2 available)
....31023...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....82 mm. F++. Good example of the "twin loaves" dorsal freak & slightly squished as well...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....20399...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....82 mm. F++. Large, "squashed" & heavily spotted...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....33995...(5)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....80 to 82 mm. F++. Big, dark heavy adult examples, nothing special, just the quintescence of tigris...Thailand...$4 (5 available)
....36218...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....80 mm. F+. Bizarre injury freak with grooved aperture, dorsal ridge & scrambled pattern!...Philippines....$25 (1 available)
....31025...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....79 mm. F++. Nicely flattened example with yellow background...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....20396...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....79 mm. F+. Short-tailed bulbose freak, nearly spherical...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....31026...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....78 mm. F+. Injury to labral side of dorsum has produced an elongate looking shell with concave lip...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....22969...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....78 mm. F++. Fresh & dark, with lots of extra-small black spots...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....28778...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....77 mm. F++. Super-dark spotted specimen...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....18735...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....68 to 77 mm. F++. Super-dark coloration, with lateral spots almost down to base. Early stage melanistic...Philippines...$14 (2 available)
....19705...(5)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....69 to 77 mm. F++. Funny little runty freaks. Slightly lopsided & hump-backed. Good colours & clear nacre, so they likely aren't pollution or disease caused...Philippines...$5 (5 available)
....29854...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....76 mm. F++. Unusual example with odd "three phase" dorsal pattern caused by a paler cental patch...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....32666...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....75 mm. F++. Hugely inflated, solidly adult & heavy, yet with spiral banded juvenile dorsal pattern...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....32668...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....75 mm. F++. Nice, heavy, typically dark spotted specimen...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....31019...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....73 mm. F++. Oddly spot-less patch on the dorsum...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....28779...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....72, 73 mm. F++. Slightly freaky! Fully adult, solid, heavy bases but with partly retained juvenile dorsal patterns...Philippines...$7 (2 available)
....35409...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....71 mm. F++. Freak! Dorsal injury resulted in large semi-circular "bite" from the labral side......Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....29853...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....71 mm. F+++. Solid & heavy semi-dwarf with touches of early melanism...Philippines...$13 (1 available)
....22967...(1)...Cypraea tigris (ventral) Linne, 1758 (dorsal)....70 mm. F++. Big-mouthed "grinning" freak on one side, and delightful, carnival-like pattern on the other...Philippines...$17 (1 available)
....32670...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....69 mm. F++. Unusual freak form with thick, angled ridge along the columellar side. Well & heavily spotted...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....5552...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....68 mm. F+. FREAK! leopardis - like, heavy adult but no lip teeth - a toothless tiger!...Bohol, Philippines...$19 (1 available)
....20417...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....68 mm. F. FREAK! Folds on dorsum & a big wide mouthed "grin". Interesting...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....32665...(1set)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....61 to 68 mm. F++. Great 4 piece colour variation set, with backgrounds of white, brown & blue-gray, plus a freak without dorsal spots...Philippines...$14 (1 set available)
....25906...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....67 mm. F+. Somewhat dwarfish, very heavy for its size, and with a flat side...Philippines...$9 (1 available)
....20398...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....66 mm. F+. Funny, elongate growth freak with "smiling mouth" apperture...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....29855...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....65, 66 mm. F+. Freaks with "squished" dorsum looking like unevenly raised loaves of bread...Philippines...$7 (2 available)
....20395...(3)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....63 to 66 mm. F+. Strange squashed &/or hump-backed freak forms...Philippines...$8 (3 available)
....19707...(4)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....64 to 65 mm. F++. Chunky, dark, semi-dwarf examples...Philippines...$8 (4 available)
....32662...(1pr)....Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....64 mm. F++. Neat pair, both with virtually identical spot patterns but one inflated & round, the other slightly squat & elongate...Philippines...$20 (1 pair available)
....26649...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....62 mm. F++. Fully adult semi-dwarf...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....32663...(2)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....61 to 62 mm. F++. Nicely inflated specimens with darkly spotted dorsum...Philippines...$5 (2 available)
....35665...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....60 mm. F++. Nice semi-dwarf with yellow dorsum & black spots (more like a leopard than a tiger, really!)......Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....33431...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....59 mm. F++. Freak!! Not only has the cute "risen loaf" hump, but the sulcus splits the colors in half - one half nice and dark, the other half very light. Primo!...Philippines...$15 (1 available)
....33367...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....59 mm. F+. Freakish specimen, pinched, deformed & dwarfish, yet with unmistakable dorsal pattern...Philippines...$8 (1 available)
....32664...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....59 mm. F++. Unusual example with brown stripe on both sides of the sulcus...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....32657...(3)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....55 to 59 mm. F++. Great miniature examples, dark spotted & heavy for their size...Philippines...$13 (3 available)
....32660...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....58 mm. F++. Small yet solid, with unusually pale, only half spotted dorsum...Philippines...$20 (1 available)
....36219...(1pr)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....55 mm. F++. Cute light & dark extreme pattern dwarf pair...Philippines....$20 (1 pair available)
....28780...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....54 mm. F++. Cute miniature edition! Fully adult dwarf specimen...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....19708...(3)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....48 to 53 mm. F++. Great little, fully adult, Truly dwarf specimens...Philippines...$17 (3 available)
....20394...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....52 mm. F++. Odd little dwarf freak with "open mouth" apperture...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....29348...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....51 mm. F++. Cute TRUE dwarf! With very light colour pattern similar to the pardalis form...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....36748...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....49.5 mm. F++. True dwarf specimen, fully adult with typical pattern. Candidate for the lolipop guild...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....34744...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758 ....49 mm. F++. Beautiful black-sulcus true dwarf specimen (not an injury freak)...Philippines...$20 (1 available)
....35576...(1)...Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....48 mm. F++. Heavy, fully adult, truly dwarf example, unmistakably tigris......Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....39162...(1)...Cypraea tigris fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....73 mm. F++. All white form with a spray of brown dorsal freckles...Philippines...$10 (1 available)
....39163...(1)...Cypraea tigris fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....57 mm. F++. Highly unusual dwarf specimen, creamy white with a scattering of partly clouded spots...Philippines...$18 (1 available)
....32382...(1)...Cypraea tigris cf. fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....79 mm. F++. Very light colour form, creamy white with a smattering of brown spots...Philippines...$35 (1 available)
....28993...(1)...Cypraea tigris fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....78 mm. F+ high. Unusually pale even for the form. Creamy white with a few purplish spots...Philippines...$35 (1 available)
....37944...(1)...Cypraea tigris fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....76 mm. F+. With purple-black spots on an all white shell...Philippines?...$10 (1 available)
....31891...(2)...Cypraea tigris fm. pardalis Shaw, 1795....63 to 70 mm. F++. Mostly white to cream coloured with scattered brown dots...India...$30 (2 available)
....32658...(1)...Cypraea tigris cf pardalis Shaw, 1795....68 mm. F++. Creamy albinistic white with a scattering of brown spots...Philippines...$24 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....102+ mm. F++/gem-. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....82 to 89 mm. F++. Fantastic 5 set! From a pale, almost pardalis form, through various spot & colour forms to a nearly blue-black example. Good display of species variability...Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....88 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea tigris Linne, 1758....78 mm. F++. Philippines. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
NEW....39537...(5)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....34 to 38 mm. F++. Good sized examples of this Indian Ocean specie with typical pattern & heavy white basal callus...Somalia...$8 (5 available)
NEW....39538...(1)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....42 mm. F+. Huge example with thick basal callus, but a pin-hole between 2 columellar teeth...Somalia...$10 (1 available)
NEW....39539...(7)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....24 to 30 mm. F++. Nice specimens with good pattern and bold marginal spotting...Somalia...$5 (7 available)
NEW....39461...(1)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....24 mm. F++. Interesting dwarf specimen, with well callused base & brown speckled dorsum...Somalia...$6 (1 available)
....20425...(2sets)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....30 to 35 mm. F++. Good budget trios...Pakistan...$8 (2 sets available)
....20424...(1set)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....31 to 34 mm. F++. 4 piece set with a variety of spot patterns & background colours...Pakistan...$10 (1 set available)
....27552...(2)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....30, 33 mm. F++ solid. Lots of fine dorsal speckles...East Africa...$5 (2 available)
....20230...(1)...Cypraea turdus Lamarck, 1810....30 mm. F++. Fat, fresh specimens...Persian Gulf...$4 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea ursellus Gmelin, 1791....8 to 10 mm. F++. Solomons. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38963...(1)...Cypraea valentia Perry, 1811....86 mm. Gem. Spectacular specimen, immaculate, inflated and completely classical pattern on this true rarity...Philippines...$650 (1 available)
....38964...(1)...Cypraea ventriculus Lamarck, 1810....44 mm. F++. With heavy, callused base & brown sides...Indonesia...$16 (1 available)
....38965...(1)...Cypraea ventriculus Lamarck, 1810....41 mm. F+. Good discount specimen, likely fresh dead, due to slight dulling of the ends...Indonesia...$8 (1 available)
EXEPTIONAL SPECIMEN.....SOLD....Cypraea venusta venusta Sowerby, 1846/epistema Iredale, 1939....65 mm. F+++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea venusta sorrentensis Schilder, 1963....58 mm. F++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....39158...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....75 mm. F+. Jumbo specimen but with 2 small dorsal flaws & some inclusions in the labral nacre, but you’ll want this for its large size...Philippines...$40 (1 available)
....38967...(3)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....68 to 70 mm. F++. Larger than average examples...Philippines...$12 (3 available)
....38966...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....69.5 mm. F++. So large, inflated and boldly spotted that it looks a bit like leucodon at a glance!...Wake I...$20 (1 available)
....39223...(1set)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....57 to 66 mm. F++. Selected from hundreds, this 6 piece set of big specimens shows a wide range of spot pattern densities...Philippines...$45 (1 set available)
....39224...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....40 mm. F++. Neat dwarf specimen with mild melanism on the dorsum...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....34025...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....77 mm. F+. Massive, heavily calloused jumbo example, rarely seen this size!...Thailand...$25 (1 available)
....23042...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....70 mm. F+/F++. Nice sized specimen...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....34026....(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....68 mm. F++. Nice, larger than average examples...Thailand...$6 (1 available)
....31350...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....58 mm. F++. Nice large, lightly spotted specimen...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....32272...(1set)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....42 to 58 mm. F+/F++. Wonderful 10 piece study set, selected to show the variability of adult size, colour & spot patterns...Philippines...$20 (1 set available)
....28087...(1set)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....45 to 57 mm. F+ to F++. Fascinating 7 piece growth & pattern set shows huge variation for such a typically consistant species. Check out this herd of deer!...Tanzania...$25 (1 set available)
....22972...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....55 mm. F++. Big, dark, plump & fresh...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....31157...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....55 mm. F++. Larger than average & with unusual "smeared" dorsal spots...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....24180...(2)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....51 to 55 mm. F++. Big, fat, well spotted specimens...Philippines...$4 (2 available)
....4774...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1753....52.5 mm. F++ FREAK! - "double olives" form...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....33989...(1pr)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....44 & 52 mm. F++. Nice pair showing variability of size, spot pattern & dorsal colour...Thailand...$6 (1 pair available)
....22186...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....50 mm. F++. Grinning FREAK! A happy shell...Philippines...$12 (1 available)
....32000...(1)...Cypraea vittelus Linne, 1758....47 mm. F+. Freak with oddly bent & elongate shape & paler than usual dorsal pattern...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....22973...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....47 mm. F+. Pale dorsal stain, possibly due to pollution or disease...Philippines...$6 (1 available)
....24181...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....46 mm. F++. Fresh & dark, with odd, dashed dorsal spotting...Philippines...$3 (1 available)
....37511...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....45 mm. F+ (freak) Very odd injury/growth freak with loss of spot pattern & wide mouthed yet fully toothed aperture...Philippines...$14 (1 available)
....32623...(1)...Cypraea vitellus Linne, 1758....42 mm. F+. Freak form with twisted columella, bent apperture & oddly angled sulcus...Philippines...$5 (1 available)
....38555...(4)...Cypraea vitellus fm. dama Perry, 1811....42 to 45 mm. F++. Great examples of this typically smaller & darker brown East African form...Somalia...$4 (4 available)
....36614...(1)...Cypraea vitellus fm. dama Perry, 1811....43 mm. F++. West African form with dark brown marginal markings...Zanzibar...$4 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea vitellus fm. dama Perry, 1811....70 mm. F++. Tanzania. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....29536...(5)...Cypraea vredenbergi Schilder, 1927....24 to 27 mm. F++. Delightful brown flecked specimens of this scarce cyp species...Indonesia...$23 (5 available)
....32227...(+)...Cypraea vredenburgi Schilder, 1927....23 to 27 mm. F+++. Olive green with fine brown speckles which coalesce into a loose dorsal spot, and with creamy base & purplish side spots...Thailand...SUPER SPECIAL!!!...$14 or $22 for 2 (+ available)
EXCEPTIONAL SPECIMEN AVAILABLE....35527...(1)...Cypraea vredenburgi Schilder, 1927....22 mm. F++. Rare locality! Indonesian endemic...Philippines...$25 (1 available)
....32581...(2)...Cypraea walkeri Sowerby, 1832....29 to 30 mm. F++. Pretty brown banded & purple toothed examples...Philippines...$4 (2 available)
....36421...(1)....Cypraea walkeri Sowerby, 1832....27 mm. F++. Good specimen, with well callused base & purple columellar teeth...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....31156...(5)...Cypraea walkeri Sowerby, 1832....23 to 25 mm. F++. With brown on tan dorsal banded pattern & purple teeth...Philippines...$3 (5 available)
....33365...(1)...Cypraea walkeri fm. continens Iredale, 1935....24 mm. F++. Large for the species, subtly banded in tan...Australia...$12 (1 available)
....27553...(1)...Cypraea walkeri fm. continens Iredale, 1935....22 mm. F++. Nice 2-tone dorsal banding...Australia...$12 (1 available)
....18574...(1)...Cypraea walkeri fm. continens Iredale, 1935....18 mm. F+++. Light colour form, without purple teeth...Australia...$5 (1 available)
....23592...(1)...Cypraea walkeri fm. continens Iredale, 1935....17 to 18 mm. F+++. 3 broad tan dorsal bands...Australia...$6 (1 available)
....34165...(11)...Cypraea walkeri fm. surabajensis Schilder, 1937....17 to 24 mm. F++. Good examples of the Philippine race with nice purple teeth...Philippines...$5 (11 available)
....33358...(3)...Cypraea walkeri fm. surabajensis Schilder, 1937....25 to 28 mm. F+ high. Neat ex col examples with pretty pale purple aperture...Philippines...$6 for all three. (3 available)
SOLD....Cypraea walkeri fm. continens Iredale, 1935....22 mm. F++. Australia. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....33366...(2)...Cypraea xanthodon Sowerby, 1832....24 to 28 mm. F++. Nice Aussie examples...Australia...$3 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea xanthodon Sowerby, 1832....30 mm. F++. Solomon Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....38969...(1)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....100 mm. F+. HUGE example! Not a small cervus, as there are a few occellated lateral spots & it is more cylindrical. Tips are great but there are a few dull patches along the sulcus...Bahamas...$70
....38968...(1)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....82 mm. F++. Good sized specimen, nicely spotted and with great gloss...Bahamas...$15
....39237...(2)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....63, 64 mm. F++. Pretty cervus look-alike with occelated marginal spots...Florida...$10 (2 available)
....37947...(1)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....59 mm. F+. Distinguished by brown dots in some of the lateral white spots...Bahamas...$9 (1 available)
....31709...(1)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....79 mm. F+. Good sized adult example, but with a dorsal growth scar...Florida...$8 (1 available)
....27861...(1)...Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....54 to 56 mm. F++. Very slightly sub-adult, with juvenile bands still visible in some places...Brazil...$6 (1 available)
SOLD....Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....81.5 mm. F++. Florida. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea zebra Linne, 1758....72 mm. F+ high. Florida........shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....37118...(1)...Cypraea ziczac Linne, 1758....16.5 mm. Gem. Good sized, well patterned & with black spotted orange base...Philippines...$4 (1 available)
....36059...(2sets)...Cypraea ziczac Linne, 1758....12 to 15 mm. F++. Cute 5 piece sets showing a nice range of pattern variations...Philippines...$9 (2 sets available)
....26377...(8sets)...Cypraea ziczac fm. misella Perry, 1811....12 to 17 mm. F++. Cute 3 piece sets with a variety of dorsal banding patterns...Tanzania...$6 firm (8 sets available)
....24726...(3)...Cypraea ziczac fm. misella Perry, 1811....13 to 15 mm. Gem. The East African form of this zicky zacky species...Zanzibar...$6 (3 available)
....28893...(2)...Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....16+ mm. F+++. Move zic!! (and if you get that reference, give yourself a nerd biscut!!) Size LARGE singles of an elegant form....Solomon Islands....$14 (2 available)
....28890...(7)...Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....14 to 15 mm. F+++. Move zic!! (and if you get that reference, give yourself a nerd biscuit!!) Normal -sized singles of an elegant form....Solomon Islands...SPECIAL!!...$8 (7 available)
....28887...(1set)...Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....14 to 15 mm. F+++. Beautiful set of 8 normal-sized variations of this bolder-than-the average zics form....Solomon Islands...$50 (1 set available)
....28882...(9prs)....Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....13.5 to 14.5 mm. F+++. Normal-sized pairs of this handsome zicy-zacy form....Solomon Islands...$12 (9 pairs available)
....28889...(1set)...Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....13 to 14 mm. F+++. Great set of 8 variations of this pleasant form....Solomon Islands...$37 (1 set available)
....28886...(10prs)....Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....12.5 to 14 mm. F+++. Lovely little pairs of zics and zacs, at a lovely little price....Solomon Islands...$11 (10 pairs available)
SOLD....Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....18.5 mm. F+++. Solomon Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
SOLD....Cypraea ziczac fm. vittata Deshayes 1831....13.5 mm. F+++. Solomon Islands. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
....19525...(2)...Cypraea zonaria Gmelin, 1791....23 to 28 mm. F++. Grayish base, with purplish marginal spots & brown mottled backs. Nice specimens!...Gabon...$5 (2 available)
....5554...(2)...Cypraea zonaria Gmelin, 1791....21 mm. Gem. Normal, cheap!...Senegal...$5 (2 available)
SOLD....Cypraea zonaria Gmelin, 1791....31 to 32 mm. Gem. Senegal. .......shell sold, photo link retained for your enjoyment
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