Cowries of the World

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Cowries of the World

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Cowries of the World

by C. Burgess

This is the second of Burgess' two major works on the Cypraea and there are many collectors today who find that this book is still the "state of the art" publication on this popular family of shells. It was published in 1985 and it is hard bound (laminated board) 21 by 30 cm size book of 289 pages. Well illustrated through out the book in color are the 202 species that the author considers to be vaild. There are distribution maps for each of these shells and there are other plates showing abnormalities and melananistic and rostrate shells as well as taxa considered to be invalid. There is a full discussion of each species. These books can easily pass as new...they are in perfect condition.