Cypraea moneta

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Noun1.Cypraea moneta - cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of AfricaCypraea moneta - cowrie whose shell is used for money in parts of the southern Pacific and in parts of Africa
money cowrie
cowrie, cowry - any of numerous tropical marine gastropods of the genus Cypraea having highly polished usually brightly marked shells
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The first contains only one bead, which is the shell of Cypraea moneta (or 'money cowrie', named after the use of this shell as money since ancient times).
Raman spectroscopy of ancient beads from Devin Castle near Bratislava and of four intaglios from other archaeological finds in Slovakia
Observations on the behavior and shell types of Cypraea moneta (Mollusca, Gastropoda) at Enewetak Marshall Islands.
Phenotypic plasticity and sexual dimorphism in size at post-juvenile metamorphosis: common-garden rearing of an intertidal gastropod with determinate growth
kauri 'Cypraea moneta' (OS 274; Kivikoski 1962; RN 590; USS 327).
Finnisch-ugrische Benennungen der Kaurimuscheln im Vergleich zu denen in indoeuropaischen und Turksprachen/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
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