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Leis shellcrafts
Leis shellcrafts Animal characteristics:
MANTLE – The mantle is a yellowish-gray with blotchy brown markings at the edge of the mantle and becoming smaller and fewer as the markings progress toward the aperture.
BODY – The body is light creamy gray, darker towards the proboscis.
FOOT – The crawling part of the foot is creamy grayish-yellow, and the top of the foot has a yellow marginal area around the edge with dark, grayish ring completely around the top of the foot (1-3mm wide) approximately.
PAPILLAE – The papillae taper from the base to the tip and are white to grayish-white in color.
TENTACLES – The tentacles are tapered and gray.
EYES – The eyes are black.
PROBOSCIS – The proboscis is grayish-yellow.
Cypraea pantherina Lightfoot, 1870
This beautiful sea shell is very common in Jeddah and can be found all along the coast of the Red Sea (Arabian Side). It lives in and around rocky areas where there is a lot of dead coral or rock slabs. They are also found in brain coral. They seek nooks and holes to hide in during the day. The usual habitat is in water from 1 to 15 feet. They can be taken on the reef or in the more quiet waters closer to shore or on bottom that is sandy with small, scant seaweed clumps.
When one is found, the chances are good that you may find many more in the same area or even under the same slab. I have found as many as seven of the species under one rock slab. They can be found with other sea shells. Usually you can spot a large C. pantherina as you swim along for they tend to stay under the rock ledges with their mantle retracted, and the shell shines and catch one's eye, if one is experienced. Also, the sea shell is not afraid to travel about during the day light hours and many are found crawling about far from any type of cover. About 75 percent of the time when these sea shells are collected, the mantle is covering the shell. At night, they travel freely about the floor of the sea, and even come out of the water onto the rocks by the shore. I have collected several at night in this manner. At night when they travel about the mantle is usually fully extended. The larger specimens seem to stay by themselves and the younger ones tend to group.
I know of six color variations that I can find here in the Red Sea. South of Jeddah you can find creamy white sea shells while North, you can find the darker variety. More time has to be devoted to studying this color location of the pantherina.
Leis shellcrafts 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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