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Bursa rubeya
The name moneta (coin) refers to the former use of the cowry as coin in Africa, and caurica** is a badly latinized "cowry";
this word comes from the Hindoostanee language in which it means small coins, as moneta and annulus have been used as money
in ancient India too: they have been called Kaparda in Sanscrit, and Kavari by the Mahrats; the word cowry may, however, also
derivate from Kori which means tax in the language of Gujarat in India.
2. Many names derive from the habitat of the holotype:
from countries chinensisChina, gambiensisGambia, indica(East) India, melanesiaeMelanesia, mexicanaMexico,
surinamensisSurinam, (Guiana), westralisWest Australia (incorrectly contracted word); from seas: erythraeensisfrom the
Erythraean (Red) Sea; from islands: luchuanaLu-chu (Ryu-kyu) Islands, mauritianaMauritius, novaebritanniaeNew Britain,
ogasawarensisOgasawara (Bonin) Islands; from cities: eucliaEucla, West Australia; or from bays, capes, etc.: algoensisAlgoa
Bay, capensisCape of Good Hope. Some geographical names indicate the habitat relative to that of allied species, as
aequinoctialisequatorial, hesperina and occidentaliswestern, superstes- survivor (of the fossil martini).
3. Specific names established in honor of a male scientist have been spelled by affixing one 'i' to his surname:
artuffeli, barclayi, catei, childreni (emended), coxeni, dillwyni, fultoni, gaskoini, hirasei, hungerfordi,
kieneri, kuroharai, landeri, langfordi, listeri, martini, moelleri (emended), ostergaardi, reevei, robertsi,
rosselli, summersi, teramachii, teulerei, tomlini, vredenburgi, walkeri, wilkinsi; if two 'i' have been affixed
originally, as in beckii, boivinii, broderipii, comptonii, cumingii, friendii, goodallii, humphreysii, lamarckii,
owenii, the second 'i' should be suppressed according to the International Rules of Zoological Nomenclature (1958), whereas
valentia (named after Lord Valentia) should be called valentiai in [the] future. Compound names must be written in one word,
as depriesteri and macandrewi, as well as names containing both the Christian name and the surname: raysummersi (Ray
Summers). Names of scientists also may be used as adjectives, affixing 'ana' as in grayana, rashleighana, and sowerbyana, or
affixing 'i' an a as in bregeriana, dayritiana, petitiana, schilderiana. Species dedicated to a woman will be named by
affixing 'ae' to the surname as hammondae and saulae, or to the Christian name: annettae, katsuae, mariae, marielae;
schilderorum expresses dedication to both Schilders, and catholicorum to the German Catholic missionaries in New Britain who
sent us several thousands of cowries.
4. The generic name Cypraea:
is to be derivated from the Greek Kyprios (i.e. living in the island Cyprus), a surname of Aphrodite or Venus, the ancient
deity of beauty.
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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