1. 13 Not all fossils are shells of invertebrates like clams, oysters, cowries, and periwinkles.

2. ‘Large Batfishes look at divers with much the same regard as divers look at them.’ ‘There are mushroom and staghorn corals, tiger cowries and batfish.’ ‘At the stern I play tag with a …

3. Cowry or cowrie, plural cowries, is the common name for a group of small to large sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries.The word Cowry is also often used to refer only to the shells of these snails, which overall are often shaped more or less like an egg, except that they are rather flat on the underside.