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Cypræa tigris

Antique shell print · Pl. 1 · Paris

Tiger Cowrie — Antique Shell Print, Cypraea Pl. 1, Paris

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Tiger Cowrie (Cypræa tigris), with Cypræa carneola and Cypræa nucleus, on Cypraea Pl. 1 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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sRGB, with a quarter-inch trim margin on all four sides. Print at 100% — never “fit to page”.

Shell nomenclature has changed considerably since this atlas was published. Names, authorities and localities appear here as Kiener printed them, and the accepted name of each species is given beside it.

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Three species on this sheet

N° accepted today as printed, 1891
1 Cypraea tigrisgenus changedtiger cowrie Cypræa tigrisPorcelaine tigre
2 Lyncina carneolagenus changedCarnelian cowrie Cypræa carneolaPorcelaine carnéole
3 Nucleolaria nucleusgenus changedKernel cowry Cypræa nucleusPorcelaine grenue
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file JPEG · 3300 × 2550
plate image 11.0 × 8.5 in at 300 DPI

About the plate

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 Where a name is no longer current, the accepted name is given beside it with its source.