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Clams
It will be seen by those who compare this list of fourteen species with that given by Schilder that seven species are
recorded from the Tubuai Islands for the first time. It brings the number of species known from this area to seventeen, the
species known previously from the islands and not found by my collectors being Cypraea talpa L., C. tigris L., and C.
(Lyncina) lynx L.
It should be mentioned that a specimen of C. mauritiana L. was seen in a small private collection on Tubuai, which the owner
said was collected on Raevavae, it being unknown on Tubuai. Other informants, however, told my collector Dick Sixberry that
this species has been carried to the Tubuai Islands by sailors on the inter-island trading schooners, probably from the
Marquesas.
The collections from which the above information is taken were made during the time of the most unfavorable weather, and
storms prevented collecting on many days of the expedition's stay.
The following species of cowries were collected alive or seen in such number and condition in the market place in Pago Pago
that their local occurrence seems unquestionable.
annulus (common)
arabica (common)
argus (rare, 3 sp.)
asellus (uncommon, 12 sp.)
caputserpentis (uncommon, 18 sp.)
carneola (rare, 3 sp.)
caurica (common)
childreni (rare, 1 sp., beach, Swains Island)
cicercula (rare, 4 sp.)
cribraria (rare, 2 sp.)
cumingi (?) (rare, 2 sp.)
eglantina (uncommon, 8 sp.)
erosa (abundant)
errones (rare, 1 sp. in market)
felina (rare, 3 sp.)
fimbriata (rare, 5 sp.)
helvola (uncommon, 7 sp.)
hirundo (common)
irrorata (rare, 3 sp., beach, Swains Island)
isabella (common)
kieneri (uncommon, 7 sp.)
lynx (rare, 5 sp.)
mauritiana (market only)
microdon (rare, 2 sp.)
minoridens (rare, 2 sp.)
moneta (abundant)
nucleus (uncommon, 9 sp.)
poraria (rare, 2 sp.)
punctata (uncommon, 8 sp.)
staphylaea (uncommon, 11 sp.)
talpa (uncommon, 9 sp.)
teres (rare, 1 sp.)
tigris (rare, 2 sp.)
ursellus (rare, 4 sp.)
vitellus (market only)
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