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Hello. I have a shell I cannot identify, or it just isn't in my books, or it is a immature animal. It measures 85mm long, 50mm wide and about 41mm high. I have included pictures.

I cannot tell where it came from because I got it either from a shell shop or from a friend. I really don't remember, so I looked in my books to see a pattern match but to no avail. There are so many.

Send thoughts and ideas to:

Email: Bob

Ideas:

• I believe the shell is much too inflated to be either C. talpa or C. exusta.
  It looks to me like a juvenile Cypraea cervus.  Paul M.

• It looks to be a juvenile Macrocypraea cervus -- considering the large size.
  http://www.jaxshells.org/cergif.htm. Bill F.

• It certainly looks to be a C. talpa, but could be C. exusta. The lack of
  locality data makes it tough to say for sure. C. talpa is far more common, so
  it's the better guess. Bob D.

• Definitely C. cervus, quite common here in SoFla. I have an identical specimen with the same under-developed teeth, which is not so common... Mike G.

• I think it looks like it could be an immature Cypraea talpa... Vicky W.