cypraea tigris การใช้

• The shell of " Cypraea tigris " is believed to help to facilitate childbirth : some women in Japan hold a shell of this species during childbirth.
• Large cowry shells such as that of a " Cypraea tigris " have been used in Europe in the recent past as a darning egg over which sock heels were stretched.
• Shells of " Cypraea pantherina " have been found in tombs in the Rhine valley dated to 6 BCE . Furthermore, shells of this species and the related " Cypraea tigris " have been unearthed at Pompeii, the ancient Roman city near Naples, Italy, where these shells may have been used as an ornament.
• The "'panther cowry "'is one of only two species currently included in the genus " Cypraea " ( the second species is " Cypraea tigris ", Linnaeus, 1758 ), as all other species previously belonging to the genus " Cypraea " have been reassigned to other genera within the family Cypraeidae.