| Cypraecea
By Ma Xiutong
This hardcover, 208 page book was published in 1997 as part of a series on the fauna of China. It contains 283 pages with 8 color and 2 black & white plates. The text is in Chinese with abstracts in English. As well as the cowries it covers the ovulids, trivia and the erato from the Chinese coastline. The page size is 7.5 by 10.5 inches. A total of nine new species (4 Cypraea) are described in this book. |