porcelaine tigre

French
Anterior view of a live individual of porcelaine tigre with its mantle fully extended
Five views of a shell of porcelaine tigre

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /pɔʁ.sə.lɛn tiɡʁ/

Noun

porcelaine tigre f (plural pocelaines tigre)

  1. tiger cowrie (Cypraea tigris)

Alternative forms
  • le tigre
  • la peau de tigre
  • porcelaine tigrée
  • Porcelaine tigre (Naturalists in the nineteenth century spelled Porcelaine alternatively capitalized or lowercased.)

Further reading
  • Pierre Denys de Montfort, Conchyliologie systématique, et classification méthodique des coquilles: Coquilles univalves, non cloisonnees, 1810, p. 631
  • Jean Charles Chenu, Leçons Élémentaires Sur L'histoire Naturelle Des Animaux, 1847, p. 299
  • Louis-Charles Kiener, Paul Fischer, Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes comprenant: Familles des enroulées, 1850, p. 1
  • Cypraea tigris at World Register of Marine Species
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