Cypraea carneola (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Superb!Gem 33 mm. Very beautiful. Orange and cream color banded dorsum with bluish/white soft ring. Cream margins and base with dark lavender aperture. Self collected under stone and dead coral in shallow water. Siladen Isl. Manado, North Sulawesi May 1998

Cypraea sulcidentata Gray 1824 Gorgeous Superb!F+++/Gem 31 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Grayish/cream and pale beige color soft banded dorsum with pale beige ring. Cream base with strong white teeth and callosus margins. Dived at 7-10 m. under dead corals. Mala Wharf, Maui, Hawaii 1977

Cypraea obvelata Lamarck 1811 Outstanding Sky/blue!Gem 20,5 mm. Very beautiful. Sky/blue color dorsum with pale yellowish/orange soft ring. Callosus cream/white color margins and base. Taken under rocks at 3-7 feet. Rarotonga, Cook Islands 1987

Cypraea turdus Lamarck 1810 Gorgeous Yellowish!Gem 34,4 mm. Very beautiful local form. Pale yellowish and cream/white color background with attractive beige and brown densely spots. White color base and margins with few soft beige spots. Taken on reef in very shallow water. Plate Siesta, Djibouti City, Djibouti, East Africa 2010

Cypraea erythraeensis dwarf Sowerby 1837 Gorgeous Blue! Gem 14,6 mm. Very beautiful. Tones of blue color background with attractive beige, tones of brown  blotches and dots. Cream, bluish/white base and margins with brown, beige spots and strong teeth. Taken under dead corals at 1-2 m. Khor Ambato, Djibouti, East Africa 2011

Cypraea isabella controversa dwarf Gray 1824 Gorgeous Super Slender Lilliput! Gem 15 mm. Very beautiful. Yellowish/beige color with black axial stripes and dots. Margins and base white, cream color with orange terminals and  orange/brown terminal marks. Taken under dead corals in shallow water. Ewa Beach, West Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii 1975

Cypraea cervus (Linne 1771) Gorgeous! F+++ 94,6 mm. Very beautiful and glossy. Chocolate/brown color background with amazing cream, bluish/white clear spots and grayish mantle line. Margins and base tones of dark beige and blue/black color with bluish/white, cream spots, blue aperture and brown teeth. Has a healed slightly growth marks on the labial side and small nicks on the anterior terminal ridges doesn't detract from it's overall beauty. From my personal collection. Florida 1974

Cypraea turdus Lamarck 1810 Gorgeous Bluish Callosus!Gem 34,8 mm. Very beautiful heavy and callosus. Pale bluish color background with attractive beige and brown spots. White color base and callosus margins with few soft beige spots. Taken on reef in very shallow water. East Plage des Sables Blancs, Tajdourah, Djibouti, East Africa 2010

Cypraea subviridis dorsalis Schilder & Schilder 1938 Outstanding Large Bluish Superb!Gem 36,3 mm. Very beautiful. Bluish color background with tones of brown, beige large blotches, marks and dots. White margins and base. From my personal collection. Intertidal under slabs on reef. Port Hedland, Western Australia 1975

Cypraea tigris (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Gerontic Unusual! Gem 71,7 mm. Very beautiful and heavy. Dorsum and columellar side sky/blue and white color background with attractive sparsely black spots and few orange marks marks, labial side sky/blue and white color background with large black marks and orange mantle line. Callosus white margins and base with black, beige spots and bluish basal blotch. Found among corals and under dead corals at shallow water. Panglao Isl. Bohol 2008

Cypraea tigris (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Melanistic! F++/F+++ 66 mm. Very beautiful. Dorsum melanistic and the sides cream, yellow color background with black spots. White margins and base with brown, bluish, black spots. Has sand grains on the dorsum. Found among corals and under dead corals at shallow water. Panglao Isl. Bohol 2008

Cypraea cinerea Gmelin 1791 Gorgeous! Gem 27,2 mm. Very beautiful. Cream and pale beige color soft bands with few dots. Cream/white color base, aperture and margins with black densely dots over the terminals. Dived at 5 m. under coral rubble. San Bernardo Isl. off Cartagena, Colombia 1990

Cypraea tigris dwarf (Linne 1758) Gorgeous Heavy! Gem 57,3 mm. Very beautiful, special color and heavy. Cream/white colors background with attractive black, blue, orange densely spots and marks, yellow mantle line. Callosus white margins and base with bluish, gray, black spots and pale grayish basal blotch. Self collected among corals and under dead corals at shallow water. Arena Isl. Barangay, Palawan April 1999

Cypraea pellucens panamensis Lorenz 2002 Gorgeous Superb! Gem 32,1 mm. Very beautiful, hard to get now as the entire population disappeared due the climate change. Cream color background with attractive brown blotch and tones of brown, beige marks and dots. Callosus cream/white base with pale grayish soft marks and margins with black and brown spots. Dived under dead corals. Afuera Canal, Chiriqui Bay, West Panama 2020