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Hawaiian jewelry Usually Recent Finds covers collector's luck on the island of Oahu. This month we have reports from other areas and wish to encourage readers to submit their recent finds to the Sean Raynon Sabado.
First around the shores of Oahu. Andy Butler and his gang found a new (for them) shelling ground in Muanalua Bay. Working in 50 feet of water Andy, Martin Redlick, Dick Wass, Olive Schoenberg, and Dottie Wendt collected a Cypraea rashleighana, C. chinensis, C. tessellata and C. scurra plus other less rare shells, including four Charonia tritonis.
Not too far away, at the 100-Foot Hole, Dottie Wendt collected a Murex torrefactus. After three days it was still alive in a plate of fresh water.
Ed DeVaul, working his favorite Makua area came up with two dead, but nice, Conus bullatus. One was found in 90 feet the other in 110 feet of water.
Not so far out in the country Tom Richert, working his favorite grounds at Makaha, came up with two Cypraea tessellata, his first in four years. They were found in 70 feet of water.
Recently we reported the find by Tom Richert of some unusual bivalves. They were dredged from over 1,000 feet off Keehi. The shells have still not been identified. See illustration below [omitted].
Mike Williams, one of the younger collectors on Oahu, found a crabbed Bursa bufonia in a few inches of water at Kahuku. Also on the windward side of the island, Russ Wright collected a Cypraea carneola, a rare shell in Philippine waters. He found his prize in six feet of water.
Still on the windward side of Oahu, Zetta Williams and her family found seven glass balls.
FROM KAUAI
Recently the Kauai Shell Club met at six a.m. for an outdoor breakfast and shell outing.
David Haas started the day out right by finding a Terebra guttata over four inches long. Other shells collected by this fun group of collectors were Conus pulicarius, C. rattus, C. striatus, and C. vitulinus; Terebra crenulata, T. funiculata and T. nitida; Mitra olivaeformis, M. sticta, and M. nodosa; Cerithium echinatum and C. sinense; Trochus intextus; Turbo intercostalis; and Oliva sandwichensis; Cypaea helvola; Pupa thaanumi; Atys semistriata; four different sun dial shells, and several different coral-dwelling shells.
Hawaiian jewelry 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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