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Judging from beach results I think the following areas may prove profitable for future exploration:
Haga-Haga, Cypraea capensis; Kei Mouth, Epitonium coronatum; Bashee Mouth (to right of Hotel), Cypraea marginalis, Cypraea
carneola, Cypraea chinensis; Coffee Bay, Cypraea vitellus, Cypraea helvola; Xora Mouth, this locality has species also found
on east and south coast including Voluta africana, Cypraea citrina, vitellus, helvola, arabica, moneta, and Tonna variegata.
I think this should prove the most profitable during the winter months of July and August.
In Sean Raynon Sabado (n.s.) 72:8 (1965), Dr. R. Tucker Abbott tried to prove that the specific name Cypraea arenosa Gray
(1824) is not preoccupied by Cypraea arenosa Dillwyn (1823) and therefore should be restored. His deductions, however, are
erroneous and caused further confusion among collectors.
First, Dillwyn did not say that arenosa is a synonym of pantherina as suggested by Dr. Abbott, for Dillwyn's explanation to
Lister's figure 685.32 runs as follows: "Quoted by Dr. Solander in his Ms. for his Cypraea arenosa; and it is probably a
young shell of Cypraea pantherina." Therefore he adopted Solander's name in the same way, as he quoted, on the same page, the
published Cypraea nebulosa of Gmelin and C. cervus of Linnaeus as varieties of stercoraria and C. exanthema respectively. In
1827, Dillwyn treated "Cypraea arenosa of Solander" as a synonym of C. turdus.
Erosaria cernica tomlini Schilder, 1930: The single specimen recovered from the dredge-site was considerably paler than
live-collected specimen, heavy and deltoidal in shape, with angulate and calloused margins. The dimensions were: L: 30.0mm,
W: 19.6mm, LT: 20, CT: 17. This subspecies of E. cernica (Sowerby) previously ranged from East Australia to New Caledonia and
the Kermadec Islands.
Notadusta superstes (Schilder, 1930): An additional 4 specimens of this rare cowry species were found at the dredge site; the
dimensions were as follows:
L: 17.1mm, W: 9.2mm, LT: 25, CT: 33;
L: 16.9mm, W: 8.7mm, LT: 27, CT: 28;
L: 18.4mm, W: 9.7mm, LT: 27, CT: 33.
The fourth specimen was badly damaged. These new records bring the total of known N. superstes to 9, and the reduced formula
of 8 specimens is 17.9 (53), 31:35 (= length in mm, width in % of length, number of labial and columellar teeth reduced to a
shell-length of 25mm).
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