Cowry, also sometimes spelled cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.
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- Cowry, also sometimes spelled cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside. Many people throughout history have found (and still find) the very rounded, shiny, porcelain-like shells of cowries pleasing to look at and to handle. Indeed the term "porcelain" derives from the old Italian term for the cowrie shell (porcellana) due to their similar translucent appearance. Shells of certain species have historically been used as currency in several parts of the world, as well as being used, in the past and present, very extensively in jewellery, and for other decorative and ceremonial purposes. Some species in the family Ovulidae are also often referred to as cowries. In the British Isles the local Trivia species are sometimes called cowries. The Ovulidae and the Triviidae are somewhat closely related to the Cypraeidae.
- Cypraea ist eine Gattung aus der Familie der Kaurischnecken (Cypraeidae) und umfasst lediglich zwei Arten, zum einen die sehr bekannte Cypraea tigris und zum anderen die seltenere Cypraea pantherina. Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Art C. tigris erstreckt sich von der Ostküste Afrikas über den gesamten Indischen Ozean bis zur Südsee, die Art C. pantherina ist ausschließlich im Roten Meer beheimatet.
- De kauri is een tropische zeeslak. Het is een roofdier en de zeeslak jaagt intensief op andere soorten weekdieren en stekelhuidigen. De soort komt voor in de tropische zeeën rondom Nieuw-Guinea en de eilanden van de Stille Zuidzee.
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- A live Erosaria caputserpentis, anterior end towards the right; this species is very common in rocky intertidal zones of the Indo-Pacific oceans
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- clade Caenogastropoda
- clade Hypsogastropoda
- clade Littorinimorpha
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- Cypraea ist eine Gattung aus der Familie der Kaurischnecken (Cypraeidae) und umfasst lediglich zwei Arten, zum einen die sehr bekannte Cypraea tigris und zum anderen die seltenere Cypraea pantherina. Das Verbreitungsgebiet der Art C. tigris erstreckt sich von der Ostküste Afrikas über den gesamten Indischen Ozean bis zur Südsee, die Art C. pantherina ist ausschließlich im Roten Meer beheimatet.
- De kauri is een tropische zeeslak. Het is een roofdier en de zeeslak jaagt intensief op andere soorten weekdieren en stekelhuidigen. De soort komt voor in de tropische zeeën rondom Nieuw-Guinea en de eilanden van de Stille Zuidzee.
- Cowry, also sometimes spelled cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. The word cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.
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- Cypraea
- Cowry
- Kauri (slak)
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