www.OVULIDAE.com
Dr. Felix Lorenz

info@ovulidae.com
The large family of Egg-Cowries (also known as False- or Spindle-cowries) comprises approximately 250 described species which live in all tropical and temperate seas. They are commensals, parasites or predators of various groups of Anthozoa, mainly gorgonids and soft-corals. This website was created to offer a forum and source of information for anybody interested in shells and animals of the gastropod family Ovulidae. The goal of the project is to study and describe the worldwide diversity of this family and related groups, to form a pool for data, photos, animal-samples, shells and observations.


The Ovulid forum
Discuss anything related to Ovulidae, post pictures of aminals, shells and get identification help


The Ovulid-Book
 An announcement for the book "The Living Ovulidae"- NOW AVAILABLE!


A gallery of animals
 A small gallery of UW-photos depicting the beauty of living ovulids in their habitat


The state of research
 Notes on taxonomy and field-work done on Ovulidae


Publications of FL
 Bibliography of Dr. Felix Lorenz, with taxa introduced.
Important link...
 The Ovulidae website of Takeshi Iino

Diminovula culmen on its host, Dendronephthya sp. at 25 m. Irian Jaya 2005 (DA)