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All specimens from Moreton Bay, both the holotype and 4 paratypes (sent me by W, O. Cernohorsky for examination) from 7-8
fathoms, and 4 specimens from 30 fathoms near Moreton Island (given me by O. H. Rippingale) are broader than the renovata
from Queensland, as they are about as broad as typical striatula from Bombay and the Persian Gulf. They are also mostly
smaller, though four shells from Shoal Point, Mackay (leg. G. Houston) are only about as large as tinctura, and much smaller
than the shells from Piccaninny Point, Yeppoon (leg. C. Coucom) and Pearl Reef (in coll. W. O. Cernohorsky)! These facts may
be illustrated by the diagram in which the length (in classes of 0.5 mm) has been plotted against the breadth (expressed in
per cent of length). Therefore tinctura seems to represent a well defined local race of Primovula striatula renovata: so far
as we know at present times, it seems to be restricted to the Moreton Bay area.
The July issue of The Veliger, quarterly journal of the California Malacozoological Society, contains a paper by Crawford N.
Cate on Western Australian cowries, in which he lists 60 species, with synonymy, bibliographic references, distribution,
measurements of largest and smallest shells, and other notes. He describes two subspecies as new: Cribraria (Ovatipsa)
chinensis whitworthi and Mauritia (Arabica) arabica brunnescens. A plate shows top and bottom of three species. In addition
to a map showing localities, these are listed alphabetically with geographical coordinates.
On the northern limits of Papeete, in the section called Patutoa, extensive dredgings from the lagoon of Patutoa have been
used to fill in a large part of the lagoon north of the radio station and fuel docks. Before I went to Tahiti, Mr. Richard
Sixberry, an American who has lived in Tahiti for several years, and who with his wife accompanied me on several collecting
trips around the island, made frequent, and for a while daily, visits to the dredged fill where he gathered an astounding
variety of species. He and I collected in this fill one afternoon, and also spent some time on the reef immediately adjacent
to this man-made land. Later I visited the area alone, and gathered further specimens. All in all, more than 200 different
species have come from these spoil heaps. The commonest shell by far was Cypraea erosa L., while the next most numerous
species were Cypraea carneola L. and Cymatium aquatilis (Reeve). The specimens are, for the most part, in fine condition,
some appearing quite fresh, others, however, have a distinct yellowish cast. At the present time, this area is no longer
available for collecting, since the shell-bearing fill has been covered by other material, and the site is now one of active
construction.
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It is with a great deal of pleasure that the Philippines Malacological Society announces the election to Honorary Life Member
of Professor Doctor F. A. Schilder, world renowned cypraeologist.
Dr. Schilder has long been interested in the Cypraeidae from Philippines and has written several outstanding papers
concerning them.
Recently, he and his wife Dr. Maria Schilder have been studying preserved specimens of Philippines cowries with respect to
the relationship of sex to size within a species. The results of this study should prove most interesting to Philippines
collectors and will be published in forthcoming issues of the Philippines Shell News.
A large and attractive specimen of Cypraea (Erosaria) guttata Gmelin has recently been found in the British Solomon Islands.
It was obtained from a fisherman by Reverend J. van der Riet near the Catholic Mission at Useuse, Ataa District, Malaita
Island, Solomons, in June, 1963. The specimen, with the dead mollusk inside, came from the stomach of a fish brought up from
a depth of about 40 fathoms. The shell is in excellent condition except for a pin-point tooth scar on the side of the dorsum.
Length of shell: 64.7; width: 37.8; height: 30.0mm. It is the 17th known specimen and the fourth largest. It was purchased by
a group of private collectors for over $1,000, plus trade goods, and has been donated to the research collections of the
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. F. R. Woodward (Journal of Conchology, vol. 25, pp. 180-183; Oct., 1963) gives
details concerning the other 16 specimens.
If you look upon the posterior wall of a cowry shell from behind, the whorls evolve from the spire to the aperture in the
direction as the clock's hand goes, gradually growing in diameter. If this evolution would be contrary to the clock's hand,
the shell would be called sinistral (i. e. evolving to the left). A sinistral cowry would look like the figure of the dextral
Cypraeovula fuscodentata printed by some accident, inversely in Sean Raynon Sabado (n.s.) 46:4 (October, 1963) as the inverse
numerals 1, 2, and 3 prove: the basal view shows the aperture and the narrow outer lip on the left instead of on the right,
when the shells anterior extremity points to below in the figure.
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