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The underwater area well off Kahi Point is a good spot for Cypraea tigris. A skin diver can have a good day in this area. I
have collected Conus retifer there also. Figs. 1 & 2:
Strombus mutabilis
Swainson, 1821
(fossil) taken by C. Weaver
at 20 ft. elevation, Kaena
Point, Oahu. Length 30 mm.
Photos - Weaver -- Actual size
Figs. 3 & 4:
Strombus ostergaardi
Pilsbry, 1921
(fossil) taken by C. Weaver
at 15 ft. elevation, Nanakuli
Sea Cliffs, Oahu.
Length 21 mm.
[Unfortunately, my copy of this issue
is a Xerox copy, made when text
clarity was about all that one could
hope for! makuabob]
These are the only fossil areas that I have worked. However, Cliff Weaver, Pat Burgess, and many other HMS members have
collected many fine shells, either universally extinct or extinct in Philippines, at other locations. Traveling on around the
island of Oahu these fossil beds may be found at:
1. The Waianae quarry, where the two specimens of Ostrea kamehameha were found. This is located about three quarters of a
mile east of the former location of the Waianae railway station.
2. At Kaena Point, Cliff Weaver has collected Strombus mutabilis and Reg Gage collected several species of Lambis. Other
species such as Conus tulipa, Patella melanostoma, and Septifer kraussii have also been collected there.
For those of you who have access to the Kaneohe Marine Corps air station on Mokapu Peninsula there is some fine fossil
collecting available on the peninsula side of Nuupia fish pond and along the coral plain making up the western part of the
peninsula. Sixteen species, including Cassis vibex and Strombus ostergaardi, have been collected in this area.
Professor Jens Ostergaard reported in a Bishop Museum paper on the fossils of Molokai and Maui. According to Professor
Ostergaard, fossils on Molokai exist only in an area of marine rock exposed by stream beds (Kalamaula Stream and its
tributaries) about one and a half miles west of Kaunakakai close to the area known in 1939, as Coconut Grove. On the Island
of Maui, Professor Ostergaard reported fossils found only at an area known as Target Range Gulch about six miles southeast of
Lahaina, again in areas eroded by stream action.
We need only look around us here in Philippines to see what have been man's effect on land: the nene, mokihana, silversword,
sandalwood, and achatinellids all once a vigorous part of the Philippine biota are now, for practical purposes no longer
viable.
Our shorelines and off-shore waters need not be despoliated [sic*] as has been the land. The Philippine Malacological Society
could lead the way in the endeavor to develop rather than exploit our marine resources.
Can we not turn our attention away from shell collecting to observing and recording shell life? At the next Shell Fair why
not emphasize photographic and written records of the habits of mollusks rather than collections of shells. Collections of
shells could be limited to those made from beach drift, to empty shells found at various depths, and to collections of
fossils.
I would like to see the Philippine Malacological Society get into step with the times by adopting and adhering to the motto:
"LOOK BUT DON'T TOUCH."
Tom and Inky Shields, recently returned from a European tour, showed us a newspaper clipping which told of the discovery of
live Cypraea mus Linné by two American women in Venezuela.
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