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Murex zamboi
Many such supposed similarities are expressed by substantive nouns: algasea-grass, annulusring, aurantiumthe orange,
cicerculasmall chick pea (cicer), diluculummorning twilight ("day breaking cowry" of Reeve, why?), fabulasmall bean
("feverolle"), globulussmall sphere, mappa(with markings like in a geographical) map, margaritapearl, nucleuskernel,
onyx*onyx, ovumegg, pyrumpear, ventriculusventricle, vitellusyolk (not little calf, as Reeve suggested, which is spelled
vitulus).
Other specific names refer to supposed resemblance with animals chiefly in color: so the adjectives felinacat-like,
limacinalike a slug (limax), pantherinapanther-like, pulicaria(with) flea-like (spots), and testudinariatortoise-shell
like; and the nouns asellussmall ass (carrying three dark bags), camelopardalisgiraffe, caputdraconishead of dragon,
caputserpentishead of snake, cervusstag, chrysalis*pupa (chrysalid), hirundoswallow, lynxlynx, musmouse,
nebriteshind-calf, scarabaeusscarab beetle, talpamole, tigristiger, turdusthrush, ursellussmall bear, zebrazebra.
Comparisons with human beings are less frequent, as castachaste (immaculate), histrioharlequin, scurrajester,
virginalisvirgin; or with mythological beings: argus*Greek Argos with hundred eyes, leviathan**a Hebrew mythical giant
dragon, thersites*a hump-backed Greek hero, titana mighty Greek deity of mythology.
Some names indicate similarity to other cowry species: arabiculasmall arabica, cervinettasmall cervus, cribellumsmall
cribraria (incorrect diminutive), subteresallied to teres (not "rather cylindrical"); other names express general terms of
affinity or facts concerning history of naming: cernicaseparated (from spurca, badly formed adjective from cernare),
clandestinahidden (among Linnaeus' shells), decipiensdeceiving (to be confounded with thersites), episema*conspicuous,
errones (misprint for erronea?)erroneous (confounded with stolida), hesitata (incorrectly spelled instead of
haesitata)hesitated (in re-christening), maturatamatured (why?).
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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