18/02/2024 - Progress of species description pages... completed to : geographica
05/02/2024 - 5 new shells added "lasted news shells
02/02/2024 - 10 new shells added "old collection
31/01/2024 - 21 new shells added "old collection
30/01/2024 - 19 new shells added "old collection
29/01/2024 - 15 new shells added "old collection
28/01/2024 - 80 new Old Collection shells added...
25/01/2024 - 85 shells from an old collection... choose "old collection" menu
19/01/2024 - Twenty superb shells from Indonesia will go online tonight... to select them in the Menu choose "Last New Shells".
11/01/2024 - You can now create a "customer space" to keep track of your purchases on the site. The icon is located in the "Market Shell" section next to the shopping cart.
10/01/2024 - Twenty new Indonesian shells online...
08/01/2024 - I have re-established access to the "Cypraeidae" section of the old site so that you can access descriptions of the various species until all the information is available on the new site.
06/01/2024 - The old Cowries-World site is no longer accessible. A home page provides a direct link to the new site...
12/30/2023 - New typos are online... "New and Sold" search function restored
12/27/2023 - Insertion of new typos has begun... search "New" for 79 additions so far...
12/26/2023 - Nearly 150 new shells from an old collection will be progressively inserted into the Market starting tomorrow...
21/12/2023 - Insertions of cypraea description pages have begun in alphabetical order... it's a long way to zonaria...
12/14/2023 - 22 new shells are online...
06/12/2023 - Some 50 new shells are online...
27/11/2023 - Insertion of 4 Australian shells... more to come in the next few days...
13/11/2023 - The insertion of new shells is in progress and will continue today... menu "All" then "New".
06/11/2023 - The Cowries-World.com site remains the main site with a link to the "market". I'm going to gradually try to adapt it to the new FUSION PRO software. It's going to be a long road, as I'll have to start from scratch. Most of the summary tabs are inactive or incomplete. I'll add to them as I go along...
06/11/2023 - New typos will be progressively put online over the next few days in the "New" section.
24/10/2023 - The new shells from Indonesia ... are online... to find them more easily in the menu... click on "Gros arrivage" in the "All" menu.
22/10/2023 - more than 200 beautiful common specimens at low prices will be added in the next few days...
04/10/2023 - 3 new shells online ( Cribrarula pellisserpentis )...
02/10/2023 - New shells online...
25/09/2023 - Fifty new shells soon online...
21/08/2023 - The store is moved to another web address to solve the problem of order notifications...
08/11/2023 - Incident still ongoing... Search function and order notification still not working .... New "Books" page to make it easier to find a book about the Cowries
08/08/2023 - Technical problem: for a few days now, I've been unable to receive orders placed through Shell Market... for the time being, if you wish to place an order, please note the numbers in brackets on your order form and send them to me by e-mail to block any typos...
05/08/2023 - Two new tigris subspecies validated by WORMS - C.tigris chiapponii
( BOZETTI 2023 ) West Madagascar and C.tigris benoisti ( T.COSSIGNAGNI 2023 ) from the Philippines...
05/08/2023 - The site is getting a new look and will continue to evolve over the coming months...
26/07/2023 - Very big update of the Worms ( see table below ) ... the site takes this one into account... there may be some errors in all these modifications that I made in a short time...
07/23/2023 - Forty new typos from the Philippines online
07/21/2023 - 2 C.guttata azumai "extreme size" online...
07/17/2023 - Twenty new common Tawitawi isl shells online...
07/17/2023 - New Indonesians online...
15/07/2023 - Arrival from the Philippines online...
25/06/2023 - New subspecies described in 2021 : - Mauritia arabica anhduongae Thach 2021
06/19/2023 - All Indonesian news online... common but unusual shells...
01/06/2023 - New Notocypraea piperita page... following validation Worms Notocypraea piperita occidentalis...
01/06/2023 - Add new subspecies C. tigris Indonésienne validated WORMS ... C.tigris peterstimpsoni T. Cossignani & Allary 2022.
15/05/2023 - Addition of new "Bistolida" descriptions validated Worms ... and a new subspecies of fultoni