|
|
Landsnail
Our most exciting and productive trip so far began on June 11, 1963, when my friend Mary Hartman and I left Fort Myers bright
and early (5:45 am.) for four days in Marathon. We arrived at our regular headquarters, The Ranch House Motel, about 10:30
and were warmly greeted by our friends and hosts, Chuck and Sylvia Soumar, who filled us in on the latest shelling news.
Mary and I quickly changed to our swim suits, took our snorkels and started out for our familiar places where we found the
usual live Strombus gigas (all juveniles), Strombus raninus, Fasciolaria tulipa, Astraea longispina, brevispina and
americana, Pinna carnea, Nerita peloronta, versicolor and tessellata to name a few. Some of the new species for us this time
were one Prunum carneum so bright and pretty, one lovely pink Tegula, one Conus spurius atlanticus and many beautiful little
Neritina virginea which fascinated us with their many different patterns.
This was our first time to use snorkels and they opened up a new world for us. The water was beautifully clear and the
gorgonians, plume grasses, sea whips, sponges, coral, brilliantly colored tropical fish, huge sea urchins some with jet
black bodies and spines 6 to 8 inches long, others with scarlet red bodies and black spines or red bodies and red spines
kept us entranced so that we sometimes forgot to look for shells.
The shell is 24.1 mm. long and exhibits 21 labial and 23 columellar teeth; it approaches the Japanese Notadusta katsuae
Kuroda (see Schilder 1963, Arch. Mollusk. 92:126, fig. 3), but differs by having much less numerous teeth on both lips and by
the absence of the fulvous striae on the base. Though the shell is rather vividly colored it is "ugly medium brown" (Summers)
on the dorsum, yellowish on the outer lip. Other details may be read in the original description.
Notadusta rabaulensis approaches Purpuradusta raysummersi Schilder ( 1960, Arch.Mollusk. 89:190, pl.15, fig.3) in the
characters of the teeth, but it differs by the absence of the purple terminal spots, the narrower dorsal zones, and the
distinctly recurved rear of the inner lip. Thus the new species brings the genera Notadusta and Purpuradusta nearer to each
other.
landsnail,blacktab black lip brown lip,wallers,lambis cheragra,lambis scorpio,sea urchin,white shell,hammer,raw shells,landsnail
Landsnail blacktab black lip brown lip shell fashion capiz hanging lamps caput shell coral shells bracelets conus virgo shell anklets fashion hammer green shell heishe triton dyed white rose lambis cheragra troca bead shell leis coco.
landsnail
Shells
Jewellery
|
