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Leis puka This is also a good way to get juvenile shells for your growth series. You need not kill the juveniles because the cephalopod did it already and really, my juvenile shells are perfect, all taken from the pile and I want to say when you spot the Octopus' hole, 'Collect the good shells, but please leave my friend in his home.'
Gerry Bluebdorn has been at it again. Recently found, along the Waianae Coast, two Cypraea vitellus, each 76mm, and a Conus circumactus.
How rare is Cypraea cernica in Philippines? After 10 years, one case of the bends, and 2,184 logged dives, Bobby Gutierrez found his second C. cernica. This beauty was found in 50' depth at Mokuleia.
Ron and Phyllis Macomber really hit the "rarepot" off Fort DeRussy. In 50' they found 3 Cypraea tessellata, 1 C. rashleighana and a Conus spiceri, all live taken.
Ed deVaul, working sand pockets off Nanakuli, fanned many sand dwellers in 90' depth and collected hard-to-find Terebra, Turris, Cerithium and Mitra.
Tom Richert's record Conus textile (124.2mm) is in danger as Tom Fair's C. textile has added a fraction of a millimeter. After 4 months, Tom's C. textile is still alive and doing well. The Fairs have done quite well during June in their dredging at Pokai Bay, including Mitra peasei, M. foveolata, Turris gemmula monilifera and numerous species of Terebra.
Cypraea erythraeensis is one of the rarer sea shells in the Red Sea as well as one of the most beautiful. The habitat of this sea shell is the inner reef just inside the last of the breakers, where the water starts to calm down. They are found under rock slabs which are lying in small clumps of short plant growth. This growth seems to he a type of seaweed growing on and around the rocks in the areas where C. erythraeensis are found. The bottom also has a mixture of sand and small pieces of coral. All specimens were taken in one to three feet of water. I have never collected this sea shell in deep water. This shell can be collected during daylight hours. I have found only one per rock slab. The mantle was always up, making them very difficult to see.
I have also collected two C. erythraeensis on the hard reef, under the base of a type of finger coral. These are the only ones found by me or collected by other shellers on the hard reef. I am not sure if this is a true habitat.
Leis puka 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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