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As my edits regarding several genera that link other articles (eg. Trona links to the mineral species) could someone else please preform this? Kevmin 03:52, 24 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Vulnerabilities of the cowry shell

From years of first-hand experience with the cowries and their predators, I have included a few of the predators of these shells. Keep in mind that fish gulp them down (up,... whatever!) whole and digest them, shell and all. Also, the rays (sting- and eagle) can crush their shells and eat the flesh.

Makuabob (talk) 23:53, 17 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Crabs and cowries

Crabs use their claws to grasp and crush. Some claws have very sharp edges which may cause material to break and separate in the act of being crushed, but no slicing action occurs. It would be necessary to give a reference for the claim that a crab can "cut" the top off of a cowry shell.
Makuabob (talk) 12:00, 22 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

What do they eat?

What do cypraeidae eat?--Alchemist Jack (talk) 15:58, 16 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Intermediary Taxa

Caenogastropoda, Hypsogastropoda, and Littorinimorpha should be given respectively ranks of superorder, order, and suborder. The fact that Bouchet and Rocroi (2005) chose to see them as clades, for what may have been good reason, doesn't negate their being seen as taxa with designated rank. After all they are taxoboxes, not cladoboxes.

However is someone is too hesitant to take such a bold step, I suggest doing away with the term (unranked) --clades explicitly have no rank-- and put the term (clade) parenthetically in the left had column. At least it would retain the symmetry. J.H.McDonnell (talk) 02:12, 6 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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 What do cypraeidae eat?--[[User:Alchemist Jack|Alchemist Jack]] ([[User talk:Alchemist Jack|talk]]) 15:58, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
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+Caenogastropoda, Hypsogastropoda, and Littorinimorpha should be given respectively ranks of superorder, order, and suborder. The fact  that Bouchet and Rocroi (2005) chose to see them as clades, for what may have been good reason, doesn't negate their being seen as taxa with designated rank. After all they are taxoboxes, not cladoboxes.
+However is someone is too hesitant to take such a bold step, I suggest doing away with the term (unranked) --clades explicitly have no rank-- and put the term (clade) parenthetically in the left had column. At least it would retain the symmetry. [[User:J.H.McDonnell|J.H.McDonnell]] ([[User talk:J.H.McDonnell|talk]]) 02:12, 6 June 2010 (UTC)