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Assorted shell Pago Pago Harbor is a shelling area with similar reef conditions but one which lacks pounding waves. Also many areas have been dredged to about 15 feet with the material being used to construct the coastal road years ago. Reefs extend from the entrance down both sides of the harbor nearly 2 miles.
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The waters are relatively quiet and sea shells abound in several places. For me, the most productive was the reef immediately in front of the Pago Intercontinental Hotel and the adjacent Utulei reef.
In analyzing the table (page 11) several aspects require further comment. These are included by species as follows.
C. argus. We did not collect any live specimens although, on several beaches, eroded specimens could be found. We tried in vain, but C. argus hides [in] its habitat well. We did acquire four specimens in collector's condition from native sellers.
C. asellus. In nearly a year, we had collected only three live specimens. Then one day at Utulei reef in about a foot of water and no more than 10 feet from shore, we collected eight specimens in about 2 minutes. So many were found here in a subsequent trip that it necessitated choosing the better specimens. Thinking that this might be a breeding aggregation because a few were on egg masses, we did not disturb the area further.
C. bistrinotata, C. cicercula and C. globulus. These we comment on as a group because of their conchological similarities. These "chick pea" sea shells defied our pursuit as no live individuals were collected. However, fresh beach specimens could be collected with a fair amount of regularity at Utulei beach.
C. cribraria. This is another sea shell that eluded us although other collectors found several immaculate live specimens. As beach specimens this sea shell was more in evidence.
Assorted shell Under the coral and rock slabs around the "Hole" will be found miters, Terebra, cones, sea shells and other shells. In the sandy silt are Conus bullatus (the first living specimen in Philippines came from here), Strombus hawaiensis, Cypraea cernica marielae and just about every other rare Philippine shell that you have read about in Lyman Higa's "Recent Finds" over the years.
Diver-collectors should make it a point to visit the "hole." Keep in mind this is strictly a "boat dive" area. For the visitor, Skin Diving Philippines and South Seas Aquatics, diving supply stores, have charter boats and divers who know "exactly" where the Hole is located. A word to the spearfishermen: get there first, preferably just at daybreak, and get a giant ulua (Cravelle Jack) before going after the rare shells.
Off Kahe Point on the Waianae coast, Ed deVaul came up with a Conus acutangulus, Strombus dentatus and a Cypraea cicercula. John Earle found a nice Cypraea talpa, while Chuck Thompson got a C. chinensis. All these were in 40-50 feet.
From the famous "100 Foot Hole" off Waikiki, Dr. Harry Masald, one of our new collectors, found two Cypraea chinensis, one so dark purple it appeared almost black. In the same general area, Joe Reid found his second Strombus hawaiensis, recently dead but perfect.
Young Leland Miyano, an "old" member of the Children's Shell Club found, in three feet off San Souchi in Waikiki, the following sea shells: Cypraea moneta, C. maculifera, C. mauritiana and C. poraria.
Betsy Harrison found a Murex elongatus approximately 3-1/2 inches long, while diving in 35 feet of water in the open off Makaha and she rounded off the day by collecting a Murex pele. Editor Ellis Cross dredged a sparkling, recently-dead Cypraea ostergaardi from 600 feet of water off Keehi lagoon.
From Scott Schreiner we received the following note: "For the 'Recent Finds' department, the following question: recently while vacationing at Kawela Bay, Miss Donna Ault (age 13 and an enthusiastic beach and tide pool collector) picked up a stranger, which upon closer scrutiny appears to be a beachworn but recognizable Voluta zebra. Has someone been 'salting' the Kawela Beach area, or ... ? If it was an accidentally-on-purpose misplaced item, the desired effect was achieved!"
Ed's. Answer yes someone has been "salting" the Kawela Beach area. Sorry about that.
The sea shell Erosaria ocellata (Linnaeus) inhabits the northern coasts of the Indian ocean from the Persian Gulf to the south coast of Java; the locally common species is characterized by the fawn dorsum adorned by innumerable white dots the larger of which are ocellated by blackish centres; the base is whitish with fawn spots along the margins and with fawn striae outside the teeth.
The usual length, i.e. the limits of two-thirds of specimens most approaching the mean, has been calculated 19 - 29mm. (1967, Veliger 9:371); there are, however, great local differences of populations in size, and evidently also regional differences.
[plot - uncredited] Usual size of Erosaria ocellata in populations.
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