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Cypraea exusta -Sowerby Exusta Cowrie 22.6-105.5 mm Rare |
- Shell: Fine teeth, pyriform shape, aperture curved more sharply posteriorly.
- Animal: Mantle is jet black, smooth, siphon is also black fringed with closely spaced long, slender, black, tapering processes. Papillae are of a single type, widely spaced, long, fingerlike with rounded tips. They do not taper, but flare slightly at the base.
- Region: Eastern Red Sea and Gulf of Aden.
- Habitat: One to four or more meters under coral.
- Notes: Similar to talpa . Fairly common some years ago.