shells to identify

[pettini]

please help me for this two conidae i think ? i'm lost
what the name of those? thanks

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/lh/photo/tpjMkWuF-mFRIwhD77z6rQ?feat=directlink" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/lh/photo/tpjMkWuF-mFRIwhD77z6rQ?feat=directlink">http://picasaweb.google.fr/lh/photo/tpj ... directlink</a><!-- m --></a>

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980661035523090" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980661035523090">http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/C ... 1035523090</a><!-- m --></a>

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980673663322882" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980673663322882">http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/C ... 3663322882</a><!-- m --></a>

<a href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980698680369906" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/Coquillages#5393980698680369906">http://picasaweb.google.fr/mikacharly/C ... 8680369906</a><!-- m --></a>  <span class="petit">--Last edited by Paul Monfils on 2009-10-18 22:45:32 --</span>

[dave r]

Sorry, the links do not work.
Dave

[paul monfils]

After some experimentation I managed to correct your links.  They will open now.  <span class="petit">--Last edited by Paul Monfils on 2009-10-18 22:46:21 --</span>

[dave r]

Hi. Neither are Conidae, the left looks to be a juvenile Cowry and the right a juvenile Volute. Unfortunately the species is almost impossible to determine from such juvenile shells but if I were to hazard a guess I would say the Cowry was mauritiana and the Volute damoni, the Volute could even be a juvenile Olividae. Sizes and locality may help a little.
Dave

[pettini]

all right ! FOR THE BIGGER , at right , i found a picture of juvenile cypreae mauritania on this link under.

<a href="http://thierry.dandrimont.free.fr/POUR%20EN%20SAVOIR%20PLUS%20SUR%20LES%20COQUILLAGES/Mauritia%20mauritiana%20Linne%201758/Mauritia%20mauritiana%20Linne%201758.html" target="_blank"><!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://thierry.dandrimont.free.fr/POUR%20EN%20SAVOIR%20PLUS%20SUR%20LES%20COQUILLAGES/Mauritia%20mauritiana%20Linne%201758/Mauritia%20mauritiana%20Linne%201758.html">http://thierry.dandrimont.free.fr/POUR% ... 01758.html</a><!-- m --></a>

[pettini]

thanks to DAVE R and PAUL MONFILS

[pettini]

THEY COME FROM REUNION (ocean indien) THIS YEAR.
THE LEFT IS 5cm = 2 inch and
THE RIGHT is 4 cm = 1.6 inch

i'm ok for the right it coulb be a juvenile of olividae. note: i have 4 like that exactly.

For the left (the bigger) i'm note sur , could it be a conus bullatus black ?

[conchylinet]

Hi. To my mind, both are juvenile C. mauritiana, the little one is even younger.

[marlo]

I think Dave has it correct.  Large one most certainly juvenile Cypraea.  No way the small one could be a juvenile Oliva.  The very bulbous protoconch on the small one indicates a Volute.  The posterior end of the lip starts too far below the suture for it to be a Cypraea.

<img src="http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l110/olram9/Attachment%20conversions/DSC00787.jpg" alt="http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l110/olram9/Attachment%20conversions/DSC00787.jpg" style="border:0" />  <span class="petit">--Last edited by marlo on 2009-10-20 21:14:57 --</span>