New Worldwide Cowries

About this book

This work on this popular family of shells called a nomenclaturally refreshing book, and is a trendsetter for the future taxonomy in cowries. Six new species and 16 new subspecies of cowries are described. The text part is enriched by an extensive iconographical part and explains in detail all changes made.

The 292-page work handles the following subjects:
- News about the genus Zoila
- Subspecies of Mauritia maculifera and M. scurra
- Major changes in the Leporicypraea-mappa-complex: splitting up the map-cowries
- Description of the southeastern subspecies of Lyncina porteri
- Luria, with many look-alikes
- Description of gilvella
- Research on Cypraeovula
- New taxa in Nesiocypraea
- On Erronea bregeriana
- On Erronea caurica
- Validating a subspecies of Purpuradusta fimbriata
- The lutea-complex
- On a new subspecis of stolida
- Extensive revision of the nightmare teres-complex
- New members in Cribrarula
- Two new Notadusta
- And finally the much justified description of the Citrina dauphinensis

The book closes with an illustrated alphabetical list of all taxa in Cowries.

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