Hi everyone, help me with this species

[rafael picardal]

Good day luigi_67!

In my opinion the 2nd and 3rd picture is not in the family of Olive shells, it is in a Cypraea family maybe it is a juvenile Cypraea eglantina.

But please do correct me if I'm wrong. :-)

Cheers!

Happy Shelling!
Raffy

[luigi_67]

Hi Friends, is good to me that you are back, you are really a good help for us shell lovers.

Help me with this 3 shells a conidae, a olividae and a Cypraeidae

from the Caribbean  , i founded last year close to Cancun
<a href="http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=conus2oy6.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7503/conus2oy6.th.jpg" alt="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/7503/conus2oy6.th.jpg" style="border:0" /></a> <a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="http://img205.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" style="border:0" /></a>

<a href="http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=oliveaj4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4448/oliveaj4.th.jpg" alt="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/4448/oliveaj4.th.jpg" style="border:0" /></a> <a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="http://img88.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" style="border:0" /></a>

<a href="http://img88.imageshack.us/my.php?image=olive2ij4.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8634/olive2ij4.th.jpg" alt="http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8634/olive2ij4.th.jpg" style="border:0" /></a> <a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img88.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="http://img88.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" style="border:0" /></a>
<a href="http://img205.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cypraea1zy5.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2692/cypraea1zy5.th.jpg" alt="http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/2692/cypraea1zy5.th.jpg" style="border:0" /></a> <a href="http://g.imageshack.us/thpix.php" target="_blank"><img src="http://img205.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" alt="http://img205.imageshack.us/images/thpix.gif" style="border:0" /></a>

[dave r]

Hi Luigi, yes, the 'Olives' are juvenile cowries but not eglantina as this does not occur in the Caribbean. They look to me to be C. zebra as is the other cowry picture. Not sure about the cone, possibly a form of centurio or even amphiurgus?
Dave

[david touitou]

Hello,

I confirm that the cowrie is "zebra family" . It's a juvenile without the final spotting. I would say<i> Cypraea zebra</i>. I saw same specimens in Martinique. I don' know for the cone shell.

All the best,
DAVID  <span class="petit">--Last edited by David Touitou on 2008-10-03 07:13:34 --</span>

[paul]

The shell on top seems to me a juvenile of Conus ermineus (syn. = Conus testudinarius).

Best regards,

Paul

[tigris]

hello, Luigi,

the photo below is almost deffiniately a Macrocypraea zebra, because it's shape is intermediate between cervinetta and cervus. however, cervinetta is found only at pacific side. so it is a zebra. the juvenile cypraea can also be cervus, or zebra, it is just very hard to say, but my opinion says zebra.

regards,
Jeroen