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Brown conus
This sounds simple. Actually it is chaotic, because there is no one correct English pronunciation. There is no one and only
one right way of speaking English. For example, let us take an Englishman, a Bostonian, a resident of Alabama, and a native
of Indiana. These four people would probably pronounce the same word in four different ways -- each speaking correctly for
his locality. Add to this the fact that people who speak languages other than English pronounce scientific names with the
sounds and values of their native tongues. According to Kenyon, 6 "a pronunciation is correct when it is in actual use by a
sufficient number of cultivated speakers." This is obviously elastic. The conclusion one must reach is that there is no
single standard of correct pronunciation.
There are, however, rules for the English pronunciation of Latin which are accepted as guides by the philologists who compile
our dictionaries. We have attempted to digest and simplify these complicated, verbose rules so that amateur conchologists may
have some assurance that they are approximating the pronunciation of scientific names of shells as practiced by professional
malacologists. obviously incomplete, this guide should be supplemented by consulting an unabridged dictionary in case of
question. Frequently the exact word may be found or, if not, ,one can make a reasoned judgment from an analogous English
word.
The species Cypraea humphreysi was described and illustrated by Gray in 1825 (Zool. Journ., 1:489, pl. 12, fig. 1, and pl. ?,
fig. 1), and his description is as follows: "Shell ovate oblong, milk-white, 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 plaited, 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 Röding, 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 in Sowerby, Kiener, Reeve, Sowerby, Tryon and others.
Palmadusta lutea yaloka 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 subspecies was supposed to differ from P. lutea humphreysi, but remarked that their specimens did not
agree with the description given for humphreysi. Their figured holotype (1946, Rec. Sth. Aust. Mus., 8(3), pl. 10, figs. 7-9)
does not show the "whitish zonal bands separated by light brown" as mentioned in their description.
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