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Coco shell
Coco shell Dr. Lee, who is a diver, tells us that the shelling off Brazil was excellent and that the people were friendly and cooperative. Lee was able to add numerous other species to his collection through diving in this area.
Very recently another specimen of Cypraea joycae (Clover, 1970) was dredged near Kaohsiung, not far from the southern tip of Formosa.
This extremely rare species was described last year by Phil Clover in the Japanese malacological magazine, Venus (June 1970). The holotype and the present specimen were both found in approximately the same location and depth (about 700 feet).
C. joycae is a very attractive shell. The dorsum is white with regular small brown spots and a few larger ones. The ventral surface and the tips are a bright orange.
The specimen shown [left] is in absolutely perfect condition. It measures 51 x 35.8 x 27mm and is available for sale.
During my 2 years in Spain, I have collected from Huelva, the famous port where many sixteenth century ships left to explore the New World, to Valencia well into the Mediterranean Sea. As we live near Cádiz most of the shells I have found are from this area, as one can only drive so far to catch a low tide. The water is quite cold here & visibility is never over 10-20 feet so most collecting is done on reefs at low tide.
Southern Spain has some of the finest clear weather I have seen anywhere in the world & most of the reefs are void of people except near towns & during the summer tourist season. One can walk by 3,000 years of history in Cádiz & even find shells on the walls of a sunken Phoenician city in this area. So regardless of what shells are found, an outing to the beaches & reefs is always enjoyed.
Coco shell Please note that the criteria chosen to indicate relative abundance are our own; we do not intend that such symbols should be applicable to all of Samoa. We feel that they best describe an abundance peculiar to the species we found and the reef areas that we became familiar with. (To paraphrase H. C. Gay: The absence of any species in any area does not necessarily mean that it does not occur there, but rather that we did not for some reason find any.)
All species identification are according to Dr. C. M. Burgess' "The Living sea shells."
Dr. J. C. Astary of Bordeaux (France) has presented me the two figured sea shell shells, ... and he has sent me exact descriptions of [a] further ten shells which evidently belong to the same species. The twelve specimens have been collected by him in the Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), 3 to 8 meters deep on dead corals, while the allied Cribrarula cumingii Sow. occurs on living corals in the same area.
These twelve shells recall C. fischeri Vayss. (See Debant 1969: Sean Raynon Sabado. no. 118, p. 6, fig. 1, 3) with regard to elongate shape, relative closeness of teeth, the slightly annulated dorsal lacunae, and the numerous blackish spots along both margins; but they differ by the larger dimensions and by the practically total absence of a well defined dorsal line. The average formula (length in mm, breadth in per cent of length, absolute number of labial and columellar teeth) of the twelve shells from Marquesas Is. is 17(56)21:21, while that of eleven personally examined C. fischeri from the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji, and Samoa is 13 (56)18:17. The formula of C. cumingii from southeastern Polynesia is, according to Maria Schilder 1967 (Veliger 9:374) about 11(56)27:23. It is characterized by the very fine numerous teeth of both lips and by the more expanded fossula.
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