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October, 1965
SPECIAL MEETINGS
EVERY FRIDAYNIGHT
FROM 6:30 ON AT
NATIONAL DOLLAR STORE
CORNER OF S. KING & FORT STREETS
1965HawaiianShell Fair
October23-November6
The Society is fortunate indeed. When
hope for a fair site and a chairman for the
1965 Shell Fair had almost been abandoned,
both materialized
as if by magic.
Mrs.
Evelyn Gage discovered that the old National
Dollar Store in Honolulu (corner of.S. King
and Fort Streets) was available at no cost
to the Society.
Then Mrs. Mary Eleanor
King, an experienced "hand" at chairing
Shell Fairs, returned to Hawaii after six
months' absence and volunteered her services as chairman.
Although there- are some obvious objections to the "downtown location" for our
Fair, these we think are offset by the more
numerous good points:
(1) There is no rental fee. Our only
cost will be for utilities
in the building,
an insurance policy and some minor painting and carpentry work.
(2) The National Dollar Store is on a
very busy intersection.
Attractive window
displays should lure numerous pedestrians
into the building.
(3) We can begin setting up our displays
immediately.
(4) There is a room, made-to-order,
for our moving pictures.
(5) There are two parking lots close by.
EXHIBITSAND DISPLAYS
Without these there is no Shell Fair.
Therefore,
we urge EVERYONE to participate.
Please telephone Mariel King
IMMEDIATELY
at 775-329 and tell her
what kind of an exhibit you plan to set up
and the space you will require.
Display
cases are available. After you have phoned
her then fill out the Entry Blank enclosed
with this issue and mail it in to Mrs. Mary
Eleanor
King,
5045 Maunalani Circle,
Hnnnll1h. H"w,,;; 9f\R1f\
Join the BUCKET BRIGADE. We must
clean the floor, display cases, cabinets,
and windows at the National Dollar Store.
Bring
buckets,
cleaning
cloths, mops,
brooms, and all those cleaners, soaps, and
floor and window polishes that you bought
and don't like but hate to throwaway.
If you can use carpenters tools come
prepared to do some repair and alterations
by bringing some tools, nails and screws.
Join the WORKSHOP and help prepare
things to be sold at the Fair. Bring shells
you want to donate to the club. If you have
saleable ideas let us know about them.
Small boxes can be used for shell collections and bags can be used for shell purchases - bring these if you can.
Come dressed for work with old clothes
and gloves.
If you can't come to these Friday night
meetings but want to help at some other
time volunteer your time at the October 6
Club Meeting at the Aquarium.
Parents should be cautioned not to bring
young children along because, until repairs
have been made, the area has manyhazards
such as "dark stair wells", boards with
protruding nails, etc., etc.
Let's make this year's Fair the best
ever by giving it your wholehearted support.
For further information phone Evelyn Gage
at 247-239 or Bill Christensen at 567-547.
Photos - Weaver
Actual Size
Figs. 1 & 2 represent two views of an
undetermined species of Terebra which may
prove to be new to science. It was dredged
from deep water (900 feet) by Mrs. Mary
Eleanor King's "1963 Pele Expedition" off
Waikiki, Oahu on a sand-mud bottom.
The presutural revolving cord on each
whotl is bisected by longitudinal ribbing
(about 22 ribs on penultimate whorl). Three
rather strong revolving striae (grooves)
connect these ribs giving the surface of
the shell a clathrated (lattice like) appearance.
The specimen measures 21 mm in length
and is light brown in color with an off- white
band appearing just below the suture of
each
whorl.
by EDWIN H. BRYAN,
JR.
Two books on mollusks have been added
recently
to the library
of the Pacific
Scientific
Information
Center at Bishop
Museum. They are Van Nostrand's Standard
Catalog Of Shells, and Cone Shells Of The
World, by J. A. Marsh, illustrated by O. H.
Rippingale.
The first, edited by Robert J. L. Wagner
and R. Tucker Abbott, is built along the lines
of the numerous Webb catalogs.
They
state in the preface that this' 'first edition
has been limited in scope purposely, since
an undertaking of this magnitude will take
several years to develop and establish
itself as an indispensable tool for conchologists.
We have attempted to complete
in this edition a few of the very popular
groups,"
such as the cones, cowries,
volutes, vases, slit shells and conchs,
with a sampling of others.
The help of
the Hawaiian
Malacological
Society is
acknowledged in a list of two dozen organizations and museums.
The arrangement
of the main listings
is systematic
families, genera, species.
Each species is preceded by a number
made up of five digets, which stands for
it, and is used in indicating the illustration.
There are about 300 illustrations,
black
and white drawings and 30 in color on the
cover.
The classification
follows the revisions made by Thiele, Wenz, and Moore.
Some world size records are noted, with
sources, and here Clifton S. Weaver is
listed for Hawaii.
Regional "quick lists"
are given, alphabetically
by genus and
species, with values, for eastern North
American,
Western North American, and
Caribbean seashells.
There is a list of
shell clubs throughout the world, and an
alphabetical index.
The matter of values has perhaps received the most criticism.
They are
listed in two columns:
the first premium
(highest) value for a perfect specimen;
the second, the lowest value for a moderately good to fair specimen, the minimum
price set is one cent each. The editors
explain that these values have been arrived
at as a compromise between three factors:
the relative abundance and accessibility in
nature, the relative
desirability
among
collectors, and the sales recordsinnumerous dealer's price lists and auction records.
As in the case of stamp and coin catalogs,
these amounts give some idea as to relative
values.
"Cone Shells Of Th~ World" is a handsomely prepared volume "covering most
of the readily available" of the 500 species
of the world, illustrated
by 22 colored
plates, 459 separate illustrations.
The
arrangement
is by subgenera,
with a
diagnosis of each, based on distinctive shell
character,
form and texture.
About 416
species are indexed. A foreword by Alan
J. Kohn cautions the reader that the classification of cone shells is far from completely stable and that much remains to be
learned.
Advice is given on the handling
of live cone specimens. A bibliography of
70 papers is given.
O.H. Rippingale's
colored illustrations
are excellent and these
combined with the notes and diagnoses by
J.A. Marsh should make it possible to
identify
typical
examples of these 416
snecies.
Common names are nmitterl-
-
Cypraea leucodon AND AN UNDETERMINED COWRY SPECIES
80TH
FROM THE PHILIPPINES -- by
CLIFF
WEAVER
Not to Scale
Figs. 1 - 3: Cypraea leucodon Broderip, ez-pisces,Sulu Sea, Philippine [Blanda. Length about 50 mm. Figs. 4-- 6: Cypraea species. Samedata as
preceeding species.
Early in September Mr. Phillip Clover
Porter who was able to identify one of them
teeth, 30; number of columellar teeth, 29,
and his family
stopped over briefly
in (Figs. 1-3) as C. leucodon, a "lost species"
(terminal ridge and posterior crenulations
Honolulu on their way for reassignment on considered to be one of the world's rarest
excluded). Base bent upwards on the sides,
the U.S. mainland. Fortunately Mr. Clover
and most valuable shells. For almost one aperture narrow, teeth fine, shell heavy.
had in his possession the photographs you hundred
years
no new specimens of Dorsum flesh colored with brown dots and
see reproduced above. Here is the story
leucodon have been added to collections.
larger chestnut spots near sides.
Base
concerning these two shells with a brief
It is reported that Mr. Porter has already
yellow, teeth white, anterior and posterior
description
of the unidentified
species.
turned down one offer of $1,500.00 for the
extremities
orange. Base convex. Margin
Some native fishermen caught several
leucodon.
of shell heavily calloused and bumpy.
"groupers"
while fishing with hand lines
The other shell (Figs. 4-6), which still
It is hoped that some "eager-beaver"
in 60 feet of water somewhere in the Sulu remains unidentified, somewhat resembles
conchologi~t will not hurriedly publish a
Sea. \Vhile cleaning these fish, two liveCypraea pantherina in dorsal coloration
description
of this species in order to
looking cowries were discovered among the but otherwise appears to be a new species.
immortalize
himself as the shells' author.
stomach contents,
Eventually those two Here is a brief description of this speciMore specimens are needed for study beshells came into the possession of a Mr.
men:
Length 46 mm.
Number of labial
fore such action is taken.
FOUR HAW AllAN TURRIDS
(Continued from page 1)
Fiji as well as Hawaii.
A rather small (up to 1.15 inches) deep
water shell, monilifera has been known in
Hawaiian collections under Dall's manuscript name aelomitra. Dr. Powell had this
to say about the name. "Dall intended
aelomitra as a new name for the Hawaiian
albofasciata (Smith), 1877
(Figs. 1 & 2)
Formerly known in Hawaiian collections
under Dall's manuscript name Crassispira
~,
this small shell is frequently collected by SCUBA divers who find it nestled
in sand-pockets under coral.
Unlike most turrids, the anterior canal
and sinus are almost absent on T. albofasciata
as they are on L biJiiDa~
~
monilifera
Pease", 1860, which he
species
we
will discuss next.
presumed was preoccupied by Pleurotoma
Live-collected
specimens of T. albomonilifera Lea, 1833, an American Eocene fasciata
are dark chocolate brown ~c-oTOr.
CfossilJ
species considered by Harris Dead faded shells are reddish-brown. There
(1937, p. 31) to be synonymous with is a band of lighter color anterior to the
Eopleurotoma ~
(Lea,
1833).
Since
peripheral
keel.
This keel undulates to
Pease and Lea described their respective form wave-like knobs. Large specimens
species under different generic names, may reach a length of 3/4 of an inch.
and each is now located in a different
genus, i.e., Gemmula and Eopleurotoma,
there is no name conflict and monilifera
Pease, 1860, may stand." (Powell, 1964).
Olive brown in color, its most distinguishing features are the whitish bead-like
gemmules (buds) which stud the heavy
peripheral sinus-keel.
These buds are
not found on any of the other spiral cords.
Turridrupa
bijubata (Reeve), 1843
(Figs. 3 & 4)
L bijubata is infrequently collected by
SCUBA divers from the same type of
the color of bijubata is a lighter brown
with all the revolving
cords a golden
buff. The peripheral keel seldom undulates
on bijubata and as a result it is smooth
on most specimens.
Dr. Baden Powell recently informed me
that Part 2 of Indo-Pacific Turridae, which
deals with the remainder of the Turrin~A
and the Turriculinae,
is just about completed and should be published shortly. It
will contain the descriptions
of several
new Hawaiian species.
Readers who wish
to add this publication
to their library
should subscribe to Indo-Pacific Mollusca
by writing to Dr. R. Tucker Abbott, The
Dept. of Mollusks, The Academy of Natural
Sciences of Philadelphia,
19th and The
Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103.
Turridrupa
habitat as albofasciata.
Its
range extends
to Japan.
The two species are very similar in
both size and appearance differing in that
Literature Cited
Powell, Baden A., 1964. The Family Turridae in the Indo-Pacific.
Part I, The
sub-family Turrinae. Indo-Pacific MolInA"'\.. Philadelphia.
1:5, pp. 227-340.
Ti~Spencer
W., 1952.
Pacific Sea
~
Tokyo. pp. 1 to 240.-
and Bistolida pallidula (Gaskoin), are new
verified records from this region, and
were obtained by Mr. A.JacksonfromApia.
If we refer to the original descriptions
of some Cypraeidae species, e.g. errones,
caurica, helvola, poraria and staphylaea,
all established by Linnaeus (Syst. Nat.,
1758), we shall realize how detailed Gray's
description of humphreysi is in comparison.
Linnaeus' description of these five species
Palmadustalutea
by W. O. CERNOHORSKY
consists
of
from
5
-
11 words
and no
references to figures are cited.
The
elucidation of many Linnaean species has
to be usually looked for in the works of
revising subsequentauthors.
To illustrate all forms andcolor variants
of ~ .!:-humphreysi would require several
plates, and only some have been illustrated
here.
If a new prior name should cometo light
which would invalidate Gray's C. humphreysi because of primary homooymyor
chronological precedence, only then would
C. 1. yaloka take its place; in the meantime,
hOwev~.
1. yaloka is a junior synonym
of humphreySi
~
and does nqt even
merit to be retained as a "form"
1 -?:
Topotypes
Mag. !D?X
of~
~
~
from Nadroga reef, Viti
Levu.
Fig.3:E.
hump!!reysi
nu-i-Ra [., North Viti Levu.
Figs. 7 - 8: ~.
Levu.
Viti
[.,W~st
Namotu
from
juvenile
humphreysi-
L.
4:
Fig.
Levu.
Viti
West
[.,
Nf!omotu
from
Fig. 5: J:..:.humphreysi [rom Nana1l~-i-Ra [., North Viti Levu. Fig. 6: -E-. humphreysi from Nana-
Anyone interested in obtaining a beautiful Volutoconus bednalli contact Mr. and
Mrs. John Minaur, P. O. Box 10, Thursday
T"l,.nn- N Queensland, Australia-..
Figs.
-Cemohorsky
,
Photos
**********
humphreysi - ventral view of adult and juvenile.
~
name.
Th.e specie~ Cypraea humphrey.si was
descrIbed and Illustrated
by Gray in 1825
(Zool. Journ., 1:489, pl. 12, fig. 1, and
pl.
?, fig."Shell
1), and
description
is as
follows:
ovatehisoblong,
milk-white,
to differ from ~
remarked
that their
specImens did not
agree
with the description
given for
humphreysi.
TheirMus.,
figured
Rec. Sth. Aust.
8(3),holotype
pl. 10,(1946,
figs.
h~mphreysi, but
collecting
is interested in world-wide
changes.'
Address your letter
to
Chase Ave. ' Winter Park , Florida.
Miss Mary Beaver, a beginner at shell
with three very broad fulvous bands,. making
the shell appear fulvous brown, with four
narrow bluish white bands one of which
is round the concavity of the spire and
another round the anterior
extremity,
scattered with numerous irregularly shaped
fulvous brown spots, the spire concave,
partly covered; the base flat, orange yellow,
spotted, the margins slightly thickened,
scarcely extended, and sharply margined
on the outer lip and sides of the front;
extremity
orange yellow, scattered with
brown specks, the aperture rather narrow.
Teeth rather large, blunt, pale; the columella flat, smooth, in the hind part piaited,
and rather concave in the front. Axis 9)10,
diam. 5/10 of an inch."
The specimen described and illustrated
by Gray, came from Mrs. Mawe's collection
and was also figured by Wood (1828, Ind.
Test., Suppl. pl. 3, fig. 12) as Cypraea
nivea (non Roding, 1798, nec Gray, 1825).
Gray's description and illustration
of this
species are so detailed that it could not
apply to any other known Cypraea species,
and his species is undoubtedly the C.
humphreysi
of authors, as depicted ~
Sowerby, Kiener, Reeve, Sowerby, Tryon
and others.
Palmadusta
~
~
was described
as a subspecies of P. lutea (Gmelin, 1791)
by Steadman & Cotton- (1943, Rec. Sth. Aust.
Mus., 7(4):322) from only 2 specimens
found at the Nadroga reef, Viti Levu. The
authors did not state in what morphological
characters the new subSDecies was SUDDosed
7-9) does not show the "whitish
zonal
bands separated by light brown" as mentioned in their description.
Over 60 specimens of P. humphreysi
from 14 Viti Levu andVanuaLevulocalities
were examined, and the color pattern was
found to be highly variable;
specimens
from Akuilau Island (Nadi Bay) and Nananui-Ra Isld. (Nth.- Viti Levu), were exceptionally
dark, with the brown spots so
dense that the milky-white base color was
almost obscured.
Specimens from the
Nadroga and Suva reefs were generally
lighter in color, and the number of either
brown or white dorsal zones varied from
0 - 4.
Specimens varied in size from
llmm - 20mm,
and were either
slender
or squat and broad, hardly margined at
all or with a pronounced marginal callus.
There should be no difficulty
to select
specimens from these series of shells
which would match the type-figures
of
C. humphreysi Gray, P. lutea yalokaSteadman & Cotton, or any oilier :n-g:iire illustrating
humphreysi
in the major monographs on the Cypraeidae.
Fijian specimens of P. 1. humphreysi
when compared with s-pei"cimens of the
species from the Great Barrier
Reef,
Qld., Australia,
and those from Samoa,
do not exhibit any morphological differences
which would be worth chronicling.
The
specimens of.R.-1 humphreysi from harbor
dredgings of Apia Harbor (Upolu) and Asau
Harbor (Savaii), Samoa, together with specimens of Pustularia
cicercula
ILinnaeus)
* * * * * * * * * *
.
.
Mrs. Kmlock, 41 Southville Gardens,
Kingsbridge,
S. De,:on, Eng~an.d, offers
~hells f~om East AfrIca.
She.ls Interested
m CowrIes, Cones, Volutes, OlIves, Strombs
and Harps.
ex442
SEPTEMBER
HMS MEETING
At the regular October meeting, the
following business was transacted:
(1) Regular
membership
dues was
raised from $4.00 to $5.00 per year,
effective
immediately.
This raise was
caused by the steady increase in the cost
of
printing
the
HSN,
As
partial
com-
pensation, members will receive three (3)
Hawaiian Marine Mollusks
during 1966
in addition to the Shell News.
(2) The
resolution
giving
honorary
members the right to vote has been withdrawn from the November agenda.
(3) The
resolution
giving
$1.00
family
members (18 years old or over) the right
to vote will be voted upon at the November
meeting.
(4) Mr. Karl W. Greene was made an
Honorary Life Member of the Society by
a unanimous vote of the regular members
present.
(5) Members voted to hold the 1965
Hawaiian Shell Fair at the National Dollar
Store from October 23 to November 6.
A t least ten people, among those present,
agreed to set UP exhibits at the Fair.
Page 6
HAWAIIAN
SHELL
VOLUTE PROBLEMS--
October, 1965
NEWS
by CLIFF
made by all the members of the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature,
and until this matter has been
decided by this body, students must use
their own judgment, based on objective
criteria, in interpreting the Code.
I should like to take this opportunity
to point out the available evidence which
negates Schilder's conclusion that Stearns'
use of "isabella-mexicana"
is to be interpreted
as a subspecific C'ternary".J
designation of Cypraea isabella Linne. In
the paper in which Cypraea isabellamexi~
was described, Stearns (1893:345, 351,
352) clearly used ternary nomenclature in
proposing the names of other taxa, namely:
"Chicoreus
palma-rosae
M exi c an a
Stearns"
and "Chlorostoma~,
var.
multifilosa
Stearns."
These same taxa,
together with a new species, "Cassis (Casmaria)
vibex-mexicana
Stea-rnB;;-;--were
again cited by him a year later (Stearns,
1894, Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., 17(996) : 183,
188, 189, 199,203).
Actually there is no
evidence to be found in these papers to
suggest that Stearns intended to propose
his hyphenated names as subspecific names.
Therefore,
under the present Code, they
should be cited as non-hyphenated, specific
names: LQypraea~
isabellamexicana and
CCasmariv
vibexmexicana. On the other
hand,Stearns'
taxon, "Chicoreus ~
~
Mexicana," may be cited either as a
sub s p e c i e s or a species: CMureu
WEAVER
(A unique specimen with no exact locality data)
--
Photos- Weaver
A{!tual Size
Figs 0 1 & 2: An unknown species of Amoria, presumably from Australian waters, in the collection of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. Length: 86.6 mm., width: 1;0.0
mm., spire height: 18 mm.
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label accompanying it does not pinpoint the locality
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HSN,
Editor: .Prof. Dr. F .A. Schilder's opinion
expressed m Th.e Cowry, Nov., 1964'oVol..1,
No.7, p. 103, IS here reproduced m full.
Readers
may
decide
for themselves
p'
0 n they wosh to abode by
Th
0 1~~O
IS
shell
is
light
brown
covered
with
white
tent-shaped
markings
September,
1962,
p.
4~.
Thecre
are
0
SIX brown
blotches
at the
shoulder
name
0
0
.
IS
of
of the
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meXlcana
.
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.
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specIes a Ie
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1758
the
f
1
e
o
varying sizes.
A large papillary (nipple-like) nucleus, slightly convex, of 4-1/2 turns,
is followed by two adult whorls, the last one being rather swollen. The suture on the
last whorl is canalled and thus resembles the canalled suture of Amoria jamrachi
Gray
(See
palmarosae mexicana, or LMure~
~.
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W
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which
t A
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Isa e a Innaeus,
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1893
d
ea~ns,
,
~
(asOt~a~y :~rern
1'::merlc~ c~;~~o ~~sts
wr~ e'ttlSa e ameXlcana.
,ave
~u ml aled the b casef thto D
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person
0
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er 0
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1 N
.
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erna
10na
1
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tu
last
whorl,
but
none
on
the
penultimate
whorl.
mlsslo~
The ventricose {swblle~l outline of this species reminds one of the south Western
Australia Amoria ~
~
Sowerby. (See HSN, April, 1964, p. 7).
A white columella bears four moderately strong angled plaits. The fosulla is white
and not orange as in A. damoni Gray.
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HYPHENATED
COMPOUNDNAMESAND
,
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00
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omenc
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.
reo
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e
has dlscu~sed
the problem ~~h other
?xperts WIth the" r.esult that
Cypraea
Isabella-me.xic~a
IS to be rega~ded as a
ternary deSlg;natlon of the subSopeCl?S
~
~
belongIng to the speCIes Isabella;
the hyphen connecting the specific and
subspecificnameshas beenincorrectly
ZOOLOGICAL CODE
~sr~~r~~
other cases, also by more modern
by WILLIAM K. EMERSON
American Museum of Natural History
I have been asked to comment on the isabella-mexicana" (Stearns, 1893, Proc.
opinion of Prof. Dr. F. A. Schilder (Cowry, U. S. Natl. Mus., 16(941) : 348, 352), but
"But I agree with the authors Emerson
and Old that ynAyi""n" iR " niRtin"t
species."
1964, 1(7):103) that "The name of the
West-American
species allied to Luria
isabella
Linnaeus,
1758 is mex1CaDa
S tea r n s ,
1893,
and
not (as many
modern American
conchologists
write)
isabellamexicana."
Schilder's
comment
was prompted by our statement: (Emerson
and Old, 1963, Amer. Mus. Novitates, no.
2136, p. 6)"...the component words of an
originally proposed compound name are to
be united without a hyphen, and the name
is to be treated as originally
published
in that form," which was based on Articles
26a and 32c(i) of the current International
Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
Actually Schilder and I agree on the
taxonomic status of Stearns' taxon, which
was proposed
as "Cypraea
(Luponia)
we disagree on the nomenclatural
status
of this taxon, because of differing interpretations
of the above mentioned provisions of the Code. We both concur in
the belief that Stearns' taxon is a distinct
species which is closely related toCypraea
isabella Linne of the Indo-Pacific fauna.
Schilder,
however, cites Stearns' taxon
as CCypraea;J
mexicana, believing that
":Cypraea
isabella-mexicana'
is to be
regarded as a ternary designation of the
subspecies
mexicana
belonging
to the
species isabella."
Whereas I cite Stearns'
taxon as CCypraeu
isabellamexicana,
following
a literal
interpretation
of the
Code.
Official interpretations
of the provisions
of the Code must be based on decisions
S eas hIIe
s F rom
C a t F 0 od
Submitted by R. TUCKER ABBOTT
Imagine the surprise
of Mr. Joseph
Morsello's
Chestnut Hill cat when its teeth
clinked upon a good -sized shell buried in
its canned "all fish" cat food! The snail
was the common Moon Snail, Polinices
duplicatus Say, which lives along the coast
of northeastern United States. Fish feed
upon these snails, and evidently the offal
from some New England fish contained
this shell which survived the grinding and
pressure cooking.
Last year a Great Spotted Cowrie was
recovered from the stomach of a British
Solomon Island fish.
This rare shell sold
for $1,000.
Perhaps Mr. Morsello's
cat
will be more lucky next time.
HOW I STARTED TO COLLECT SHELLS
Newlaw limits
by HELEN
An anonymous correspondent
Editor:
sent
in
recently
BOSWELL
the
following
enacted
into
piece
law
of
in
the
legislation
Colony
of
Seychelles.
BILL
of
An Ordinance to provide for the protection of shells and for matters incidental
thereto or connected therewith.
ENACTED by the Legislature
of the
Colony of Seychelles.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the
Protection of Shells Ordinance, 1965.
2. In this Ordinance the expression
"shell"
means a marine mollusk having
a shell as outer covering.
3. (1) The
Governor
in Executive
Council may make regulations generally for
the protection of shells and in particular
and without derogation to the generality of
the power hereby conferred may by such
regulations:
(a) prohibit or restrict the collection of any shell from any beach,
reef or sea-bed throughout the Colony
or in any part thereof;
(b) prohibit or restrict
the disturbance of any shell and its natural
enyironment;
(c) prescribe the manner in which
shells may be collected;
(d) provide against the wasteful
collection of shells; and
(e) fix close seasons applicable
to the whole or any part of the Colony
for the protection of any shell.
(2) Such regulations may provide that
contravention of or failure to comply with
any such regulations
shall be an offense
and may prescribe the maximum penalty
for such offense in any case a fine not
exceeding Rs. 1,000 and imprisonment not
exceeding twelve months.
OBJECTS AND REASONS
This Bill as the long title says provides
for the protection of shells.
It empowers
the Governor in Executive Council to make
regulations for that purpose.
Attorney-General's
Chambers
6th May 1965
A. SAUZIER,
Attorney-General
How many times, I wonder, have I been
asked "What made you start collecting
shells?"
Invariably my answer has been -
"For
as' long as I can remember I have
been interested
in anything to do with
Natural History".
From a very early age my father
encouraged me in this direction, taking me
with him on several trips to the more
remote areas of South Africa.
My grandfather was a naturalist, and spent his whole
life in the wilds of Africa collecting specimens, mainly birds, for local and overseas
museums.
However, it may be of more interest to
readers of the H.S.N. to know how I eventually became such an enthusiastic conchologist.
After my marriage to Stanley
Boswell, a circus proprietor,
I found that
I missed my hobby of growing succulents
and cacti plants, and also my natural history
books, all of which had to be left at home.
I began searching for something to take
their place and as a diversion from the
strenuous circus life.
In 1949 Stanley and I set off on a trip
around the world.
At Hong Kong while
visiting the fish market, I could not resist
buying two large live shells as souvenirs.
They were duly cleaned and packed in our
luggage, and to these I now attach a great
deal of sentimental value.
In Hawaii, somewhere near Waikiki
Beach, we browsed through a small curio
shop, and I came out with a handful of
shells,
which again I had purchased as
souvenirs.
The majority of these I later
ascertained were Polymita picta Born the well known Cuban land snaIl!
The
Editors
of your
HSN and officers
Soon after our arrival in San Francisco
we set off to visit Fisherman's Vv11arf,with
the object of enjoying some sea food. Vv11ile
strolling
along and considering
which
restaurant
to patronize,
we stopped and
gazed into the window of the "Pacific
Curio Shop".
I can truthfully
say that it
was here my interest in shells was really
awakened.
Never in my life had I seen
anything as fabulous as those Spondylus
shells, which the proprietor and ever since
then my friend, John Saxby, had allowed
me to handle.
At Vancouver I started looking for
shells along the beaches while Stanley was
salmon fishing.
By the time we reached
New York I had made up my mind that it
would be conchology or nothing. Brentano's
bookstore had been recommended to me
by Frank Buck, of "Bring 'Em BhckAlive"
fame, whom we had met in Singapore, and
it was there that I bought my first two
books on shells.
Soon after our return to South Africa,
I was able to spend a few days at Jeffreys
Bay, where shells on that occasion, were
piled up as much as a foot deep in some
places along the beaches.
I collected a
vast amount of these beach specimens,
and this in fact was the real beginning of
my shell collecting hobby.
Editor:
Helen Boswell is a modest
lady.
So we would like to point out that
among her choice shells is the world's
6th known specimen of Cypraea broderipi.
Also several shells have been named after
her including Pirenella boswellae Barnard
(see HSN, March, 1964, p. 1) and ~
boswellae J. Cate, 1964.
San Diego
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Photos - SUBuki
Enlarged
Fig. 1: Holotype of Ve:eillum kewaloensis J.
Gate, 1963. Type locality:
Kewalo Basin,
Oahu. Range: Oahu to Laysan Island. Length
of shell: if. mm. Fig. f.: Holotype of ~
lum moand J. Gate, 1963. Type locality: Waikiki,Oahit.
Range: Oahu to Okinawa. Length
of shell:
6.1 mm. Fig. 3:
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Hypotype
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~
lum pailoloanum J. Gate, 1963.. Type locality:
The Pailolo Ghannel fJetween the islands of
Maui and Molokai. Range: Hawaiian Islands.
Length of shell: 31 mm.
The original descriptions of the three
miter
species figured
above are to be
found in The Veliger, July 1, 1963, Vol. 6,
No.1, pp. 26-30, Plates 5 & 6 (numerous
figures).
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