Scholars hold different opinions. 37 Michèle Pirazzoli-t'Serstevens has demonstrated that the most frequent cowry species found in Tien tombs are Cypraea annulus Lin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

And some things need to simply be placed into the ear canal of a shoreline surfing Cypraea maculifera and offered up with a little humility to the sun, the wind, or the day at hand like a fool's  manna from heaven you don't get to  eat but just watch explode little by little into shadows and light, shadows and  light, shadow, then light.    From Wordnik.com.  [How To Make Your Own Falling Stars, or Dreamland Begins at Sunset] Reference

Cypraea globulus. taarlcmoerhoorn, Pnarißak, Paaytcmoer - Nauti - lus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

The general stature varied from six feet to six feet four inches; their complexion was a light café au lait; their hair was ornamented with cowries, strung so thickly as to suggest a skull-cup, whilst long streamers of elephants 'tails, threaded with the Cypraea and brass rings, hung down from the head behind the ears, covering the nape of the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1] Reference

The general stature varied from six feet to six feet four inches; their complexion was a light café au lait; their hair was ornamented with cowries, strung so thickly as to suggest a skull-cup, whilst long streamers of elephants’ tails, threaded with the Cypraea and brass rings, hung down from the head behind the ears, covering the nape of the neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

Pijjebed. a) Cypraea asellus; b) Sttombus onis - cus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea lynx, Linné.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Land of Midian — Volume 2] Reference

Cypraea erosa 5: c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea testudinaria & moneta i - diitdpcidje.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea moneta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea caurica.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea stollda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea pediciilus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

Cypraea global««.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference

25 Cypraea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia — Complete] Reference

Paddehooren. a) Cypraea moneta; b) Murex rana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Allgemeines Polyglotten-Lexicon der Naturgeschichte mit erklaerenden Anmerkungen] Reference