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Cowry

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Photo take at -35 ft on a Coral reef, this medium cowry about 9 cm long is bury in the sand looking for food beautiful shell two brown colors banded around it. I have seen much larger than this one before.

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3 Comments

Duprasi
Duprasi 7 years ago

Looks like some kind of mole cowrie. I'll have to check my books...

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 12 years ago

Thanks Oxyjack !

oxyjack
oxyjack 12 years ago

Cowrie?

Gerardo Aizpuru
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Gerardo Aizpuru

Quintana Roo, Mexico

Spotted on Apr 18, 2012
Submitted on Apr 18, 2012

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