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.
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crop of a genera page
| 1 | Here you can choose the perspective. There are seven views of each animal |
| 2 | Under "Presentation" there are two ways of looking at the exhibits: On the one hand, the animals can be put into groups (from the point of view of genera they can be grouped into species and from the point of view of species they can be grouped into subspecies). And on the other hand, the images can show the proportions. This is to say that the biggest animal retains its size whilst all the other ones are made smaller accordingly |
| 3 | Here you may find the information shown under (a). If you do not choose any information the distance between the images is reduced to its smallest level. This results in a very nice view. |
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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| Aberrant | Differ from the normal formo |
| Apertur | The opening at the bottom |
| Conch... | Not the snail, always the shell |
| Callus | Thickening of the shell |
| Data | All the importand informations around the shell, e.g: location, size, date, depth, name, description of the environment |
| Ex pisce | Out of the stomach of fishes |
| Form, Forma | Modification of the species or subspecies. |
| Labrum | The outer lip |
| Lateral | Sideways |
| Melanistic | Abnormaly dark |
| Niger | ≈ melanistic (?) |
| Posterior | Rear of the shell |
| Rostrate | The extremities looks like a beak |
| Ventral | Refers to the bottom of the shell |
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.
THANK YOU
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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-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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