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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.
The Shell's inhabitant makes a delicious chowder not only nourishing but endowed by legend with other desirable properties of
a most intimate nature.
So now, by law, you may take your conch but you must eat it too. Otherwise you'll be eating it in the Key West Calaboose.
Because of their love of Strombus gigas, and the use of the shell as a horn which carried over great distances for
communication, the name conch was applied to native Key Westers.
So today, the shrill blast of the conch shell has finally reached the legistative ear, and the conchs (Human and Marine) are
happy with Papy.
On Sunday, March 13, 1966, forty-five members of the Philippine Malacological Society and their guests spent the day high and
dry above the Pacific Ocean along the Nanakuli sea cliffs at Kahi Point, south shore Oahu. In spite of being "high and dry,"
shelling was excellent.
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Capt. and Mrs. Mal Loring, with daughters Jackie and Cathy had a successful day too. Mrs. Loring excavated an excellent
specimen of Strombus variabilis and a fragile, as yet unidentified, shell. Dr. Osborne's previous experience in fossil areas,
really helped produce a fine collection of specimens. "Doc" found and collected a Cypraea scurra (with reticulations still
evident), 4 C. cicercula 10 to 16 mm in length and in good condition, 2 C. semiplota, an excellent specimen of Strombus
ostergaardi 15 mm long and an almost perfect juvenile Strombus identified tentatively as S. gibberulus gibbosus. Conus
rattus, Mitra, Bulla, Polinices and 6 other unidentified shells completed her "haul" for the day.
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