Welcome

to cypraea.eu. I show my snail collection here. Specifically, I show my collection of shells, associated with the Cypraeidae family. Ranked I have the species under the scheme of Felix Lorenz. So, as it was listed in April 2009 on his website. According to this, there are 248 different species - of these I picture 230. Overall, I have added 1,300+ cowries in over 9,000 photos.

At a glance

Beside the below shown features all sets can be grouped and expanded with other data (finding place, dealer, price, ...). Any specimen is also available in a higher resolution.

 
Finding places with Google maps
 
Comparison
 
Several views
 
List of introduced names

That's how it works

The pages "Genera" and "Species" show the contents I would mainly like to exhibit. Therefore, I am going to describe briefly how the information is being presented. continue reading

Are you an expert?

Bent on solving a riddle? Here you will see pictures of cowries and ten different, possible names. Just one of them - you think! - is the right one. Give it a try.

enter riddle

Glossary

At some points you may find expressions which are not commonly used, especially when it comes to the description of shells. Therefore, I have compiled a list of those expressions to be found here.


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Cordial thanks to

warhorse Volker, who tooks 4,571 (four thousand five hundred seventy-one) Photos of 653 conches. This included not only a lot of hard work but also all the reflections around it. Without his help I would have never started with this website. Also, I have to say Thank You to the Marzipan Man aka Naschkater Markus for his efforts arround the list of synonyms and to my dear brother Markus, who helped me with the translations.  

Updates

May-31-2010

Eight new shells.

May-28-2010

Seven new shells.

May-27-2010

Fourteen new shells.

May-16-2010

Fifteen new shells.

May-03-2010

Sixteen new shells.

May-01-2010

Sixteen new shells.

April-26-2010

There is a new grouping. Now it is possible to compare all per region. The regions for that were set by me and then assigned to the cowries.

April-18-2010

The behaviour of the initial pages Genera, Species, Dealer and New has changed. Now, you are reaching no langer any content but a summary of each group.

April-09-2010

Done! Thus, all entries, bought in February, uploaded.

April-08-2010

Pictures of eight new shells and furthermore the Sitemap uploaded.

April-05-2010

Once again: inserted 19 new shells.

April-01-2010

After a long time finally some new photos once again. Eleven shells, all bought in January - including also a nice fultoni

March-25-2010

I have modified this welcome page.

March-14-2010

The lists of synonyms are now matched to the species.

March-05-2010

On each species site are now listed the related names (synonyms, formae, etc). More than helpful!

February-20-2010

I had forgotten to enter the subspecies tuamotensis and mayi. Besides, I had forgotten to delete the subspecies calista and meridionalis. The errors are now corrected.

February-16-2010

Plus 14 shells

February-08-2010

Google maps available. Still some minor crudities.

February-06-2010

Google maps available. For the time beeing only for the species view. Does not work completely.

January-23-2010

Just inputted dozens of moneta. Many different locations. What a round trip!

January-21-2010

Added 18 shells

January-18-2010

Plus 28 shells

January-12-2010

Plus 20 shells

January-08-2010

Plus 12 shells

January-07-2010

Plus 14 shells

December-08-2009

"Leave a message" is now available. › Contact

December-04-2009

Plus 30 conches & moderately new website style

December-02-2009

Implemented two new categories in the main navigation: Dealer and New.

November-11-2009

Plus 34 shells.

November-07-2009

Plus 18 shells. And some modifications.

October-28-2009

About 40 wrong determinations fixed. Thank you very much for your help Riccardo!

October-28-2009

Erosaria splittet into two groups (a-h) and (i-t).

October-25-2009

Plus 61 shells.

September-24-2009

Cypraeovula splittet into two groups (a-d) and (e-v).

August-11-2009

Plus 59 shells.

August-02-2009

Beta has finished but still no logo. I have added about 1,400 new photos - 200 snails.

July-01-2009

Online - Beta. Not too bad, but some translations are pending.

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