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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.
Recently I received for examination two rather well preserved beach shells which exactly agree with the holotype of
rabaulensis in all essential details. They were collected on the beach at the type locality, Rabaul (New Britain), by Mrs.
Nan Van Eck. Their present owner, Mrs. Myrtle Lee, Maroochydore (Queensland), kindly permitted the publication of the
photograph. The formula (length in mm./ breadth in per cent, number of labial : columellar teeth) of the holotype was
24.1/53, 21:23, that of the new specimens is 20.4/50, 22:24 (figured above) and 23.1/52, 22:23. Therefore the new specimens
are slightly smaller and narrower, but the relative closeness of the teeth is very similar to the holotype of rabaulensis.
The teeth are far less numerous than in the allied species katsuae, martini, and superstes. The two beach shells are rather
bleached, but they distinctly show traces of the four dorsal zones and the lateral spots clearly shown in the holotype.
Mr. W.E. Old Jr. just informed me that the American Museum of Natural History in New York has acquired a fourth rabaulensis.
It is a beach shell of 19.5 mm, and also came from Rabaul!
Undoubtedly further dredging in deep water off Rabaul and careful examination of the small beach cowries will provide still
more specimens of this rare, but no longer unique species.
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