The family of marine gastropod mollusks that includes all cowrie shells and closely related species.
From the genus Cypraea plus the Latin taxonomic suffix '-idae' meaning family. Named for their primary genus based on their shared characteristics.
The cowrie family evolved such perfect shell architecture that they barely changed for 100 million years—making them 'living fossils' that show evolution occasionally gets a design absolutely right the first time!
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