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Conus literatus
Area 6 of those under discussion is probably my favorite collecting area. Shells are not too plentiful but those found are
usually uncommon, rare, very rare, or extremely rare species. All shells listed for Area 2 have been collected in this area.
In addition the following shells have been found:
Murex pele Under coral.
Murex insularum Under coral or in open.
Cypraea cernica (2) Under small pieces of coral.
Clivipolia fragaria (1) Under small coral chunk.
Conus circumactus (1) -In large coral head.
Fusinus species (3) On coral bottom in open.
Cypraea rashleighana (3) Under small coral slabs.
Conus acutangulus (3) In sandy silt.
Casmaria vibex (2) In silt under coral rubble.
Codakia thaanumi (2) In silty bottom.
Nodipectin langfordi In silty bottom.
Tellina crassiplicata In silty bottom.
Glycymeris diomedea In silty bottom.
Terebra subulata (1)- In sandy patch.
Conus spiceri (2) Under large coral head.
Harpa amouretta (1) In silty patch.
Another very important paper was published by Hidalgo around 1907. Although it was not illustrated, it was the first
significant collation of all the previous workers' efforts; he compiled a list of all known cowries and their authors, and
attempted to relate the species and their variants in an orderly way. Hidalgo failed, however, to recognize geographically
remote populations as distinct races; thus we have in Hidalgo another lumper--but nevertheless a very important man in the
Cypraea field.
Of course we all know about the Kiener, (1845), Reeve, (1845), and Sowerby, (1870) monographs; these are primary tools for a
worker in Cypraea, as these authors furnished excellent colored illustrations of the species known to them. I will not dwell
on these three, as they should be fairly familiar to most of you.
I would, however, like to show you the plates of one of the lesser-known cowrie monographs, the 1881 work by Weinkauff; I
have color slides of these plates with me tonight and am happy to share them with you after having to search the world over
-- unsuccessfully -- to try to obtain a copy of this rare book. These slides were made from a borrowed copy, one of the very
few known, remaining at this time in private hands.
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