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Cowries Our idea was to revise the family Cypraeidae on the basis of the Schilder's work by critically evaluating all data available to us, trying to find a balance between the splitter's and the lumper's points of view There are 600 pages and 128 colour plates in this second, revised and enlarged edition Thousands of specimens are illustrated, the genera, species, subspecies and many formae are
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Felix Lorenz: Umbilia - The living species - cowries The species of Umbilia are among the more striking cowries, mainly because of their large spires, the rostrate extremities and variable, often bright colors The fossil record is characterized by a variety of odd species Umbilia (Palliocypraea) gastroplax had wide fragile flanges along the margins, Umbilia siphonata had long, twisted beaklike extremities not seen in any living species of
New taxa of Cowries (Gastropoda: Cypraeidae) Foreword This issue of Acta Conchyliorum contains nine works describing fifteen new subspecies of living, as well as one new species of fossil cowries, with different approaches to their characterization The first paper addresses those members whose molecular data gives strong support for their distinction, although the shells of some of them are quite difficult to separate The taxonomy of
Microsoft Word - Conchylia_45_4_4_final - cowries Abstract Zoila eludens stricklandi n ssp from the Northwest Cape, NW Australia is compared with Zoila e eludens RAYBAUDI 1991, T e delicatura CHANDLER DUROSS 1997, and Z perlae LOPEZ CHIANG 1975 It differs by being a smaller, more rostrate, and lighter-weight shell, with a narrower, less calloused base, the absence of calloused marginal flanges, as well as several distinct features