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Embonium shell
The sand and loose coral rubble bottom directly in front of the Moana-Surfrider hotels have provided good grounds for sand
dwelling shells for many years. At one time this must have been the mouth of a stream of considerable size because the same
type bottom is found seaward to depths of over 200 feet.
Areas 1 through 4 can be worked by wading with a look box or by snorkeling. Ocean swells usually break along these shores in
depths of 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 fathoms (all depths shown on the chart are in fathoms). By the time the shoreward-rushing water
reaches a depth of 2 to 3 feet there is usually little wave action remaining and snorkeling or look box collecting is
possible.
Areas 5, 6, and 7 should be worked only from a boat. The distance off-shore, plus occasionally strong currents, make it
hazardous diving in these areas except from a boat.
Save the accompanying chart and chart symbols for use with future issues of your Sean Raynon Sabado. And good shelling.
1. There is no population in which only rostrate or melanistic shells occur, and normal shells are absent.
2. There is locally a gradual passing from normal shells to sub-rostrate and rostrate ones; Cernohorsky estimated (by letter)
the relative frequency of these stages in Mauritia eglantina Duclos in Mondoure Bay as about 30: 5: 1.
3. Rostration and melanism often occur in the same specimen, but they are not always linked.
4. Localities from which such shells are known, may be scattered over the whole region inhabited by the species, but they
evidently are concentrated in certain smaller areas.
5. The tendency to become rostrate or melanistic differs, as certain species seem not to be susceptible at all or at least
less susceptible to rostration and melanism than other species.
There seems to be no predominance of any sex in rostrate cowries; the radula evidently does not differ from that of normal
specimens.
Certain specific names are persistently used in literature, despite their invalidation by the I.C.Z.N. some 10 years ago. As
I was one of the culprits in using two invalid names in my Catalogue of Living Cypraeidae, I thought it advisable to make the
necessary corrections.
By opinion 261 (published 10th August, 1954), the work of L. T. Gronovius, Zoophylacium Gronovianum, 3 parts, 1763 - 1781,
and F. C. Meuschen's Index to Gronovius' work from 1781, have been rejected as non-binominal. This will invalidate the
following names:
embonium shell,conus magus,rapa - rapana,earring,green shell heishe,seashells components,brown fusus,conus marmereous,whole sale,embonium shell
Embonium shell pukalet cyprea moneta conus sowerby pecten palleum hair mitra papales strombus latesimus exporter fashion pukalet bursa rubeya shells accessory shell fashion shells accessory mother of pearl shelltiles shark teeth ovula.
embonium shell
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