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Let us hope that more specimens of this interesting species will turn up in the future!
Many of Oahu's divers call the Barber's Point area Cross' Underwater Supermarket. And with good reason. Not only are there
many excellent areas for the many species of shells but also good areas for lobsters, squid, fish, and turtle. All of which I
manage to harvest as the need arises. This brief article will be devoted strictly to shelling areas. If you want to know
where the lobsters, turtles, etc., spend their leisure time you will have to join my lobster or turtle club and membership
to those clubs are closed for the time being.
The various shelling areas outlined roughly on the accompanying portion of Coast and Geodetic Survey chart 4410 reflect the
many different types of ocean bottom in the Barber's Point area. Probably for this reason there are innumerable species of
shells in the area, varying from the common Nerita picea in the splash zone along the shore to the extremely rare Conus
circumactus (formerly pulchellus) and Cypraea cernica found in deep water in Area 6.
In the same issue, Eugene Coan starts an account of the Mollusca of the Santa Barbara County area, by listing the Pelecypoda
and Scaphopoda, with notes and bibliography. A series of excellent plates are given showing the fine structure of the
follicle gland of the freshwater snail, Lumnaea auricularia, found near Concord, California, the work of Richard S. Nishioka,
Leonard Simpson, and Howard A. Bern. The gastropod known as Murex rhyssa Dall is renamed Pteropupurata vokesae by William K.
Emerson. Nettie and George E. MacGinitie describe the habitats and breeding seasons of the shelf limpet, Crepidula
norrisiarum Williamson, with a plate showing it growing on Norrisia norrisi (Sowerby). Franz Alfred Schilder presents a
provisional classification of the genus Notocypraea, a cowry found in Tasmania. Myra Keen and Bruce Campbell describe ten new
species of Typhinae from Japan, Panama, Colombia, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. There are also other papers, notes,
news, and reviews. The Editorial Board reads like an impressive 'Who's who' on Pacific Coast Mollusca.
Since joining the H. M. S. about a year ago I have been most interested in reading the H. S. N. and enjoy the accounts of
shelling in Philippines. I wonder if your readers would be interested in hearing about shelling in the Florida Keys. Our
group here in Fort Myers shells regularly at nearby Punta Rassa, Fort Myers Beach and Bonita Beach. But our favorite spot now
is in the Marathon area in the Florida Keys, about 250 miles from Fort Myers.
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