Stolid Cowrie (Cypræa stolida), with Cypræa zigzag, Cypræa asellus and Cypræa clandestina, on Cypraea Pl. 31 of L.-C. Kiener's Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes, issued in Paris. Restored from the plate for home printing.
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From Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes, L.-C. Kiener, continué par le docteur P. Fischer, Paris.
Captions transcribed by hand from the plate.
A note on the 1891 marks
Shell nomenclature has changed considerably since this atlas was published.
Names, authorities and localities appear here as the original printer set
them. Where a name is no longer current, the accepted name is given beside
it with its source.
