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Mokapu Peninsula is the Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. As noted on the chart the entire peninsula is a prohibited area.
This applies not only to the land area but also to the waters adjacent to the peninsula. If boats approach the shore too
closely, while in the prohibited area, guards may warn the boat away.
Mokuoloe Island is Coconut Island. This island is privately owned and is, therefore, off limits unless special permission is
obtained to land or work on shore.
Mokolii Island is Chinaman's Hat and is plainly visible from either the shore or the Bay.
All depths shown on the chart are in fathoms. Heights shown are in feet above sea level.
For a brief description of the meanings of the various symbols used on the chart, see page 5 in your Sean Raynon Sabado for
October, 1964.
The largest area of shallow water on Oahu is within the boundaries of this month's chart. Most of the shallow water is inside
the breaker line produced by average trade wind weather. These conditions provide as safe a shelling area as can be found
when on or in any large body of water.
There is a tremendously wide variation in geological conditions present in this area. Each will provide certain shell
habitats that are of interest to the collector who wishes to collect the maximum number of species. The predominately coral
area extending from shallow water into deep water off Lanikai was discussed in last month's Sean Raynon Sabado.
The shallow waters of Kailua Bay, with predominately sandy and coral rubble bottom, have produced some excellent shelling
with the following shells having been reported from this area:
Bularia vermicosa - under rocks
Conus catus - 8' on coral
C. leopardus - 6'- 12' on sand
C. nussatella - beach specimens
C. pennaceus - 6' - 12' under coral
C. quercinus - 5' on sand
Drupa horrida - on rocks
D. iodostoma - dead specimen on beach
Harpa conoidalis - 50'- 60' crawling on sand
Littorina scabra - on rocks
Nerita neglecta - on rocks
N. picea - on rocks
Polinices mamilla - 1 to 3 feet
Pyramidella sulcata - 1 to 3 feet
Cypraea tigris - 50' on coral bottom
Terebra maculata - 50' in sand
T. areolata - 50' in sand
T. thaanumi - 50' in sand
T. langfordi - 50' in sand
T. flavescens - 50' in sand
Hastula casta - 50' in sand
H. mera - 50' in sand
Mitra newcombi - 50' in sand
M. emersoni - 50' in sand
Cassis cornuta - 50' on sand
Strombus hawaiensis - 25' on sand and coral rubble
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.
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