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Sheashells
Trawling in about 100 fathoms off Cape Moreton in Queensland has supplied several new cowries that have relatives living in
Japan. They are Erronea coucomi, Schilderia moretonensis, and Schilderia queenslandica.
Murex torrefactus, a close cousin of M. insularum, deposits about 100 egg capsules on the average containing 5,000 eggs;
about 700 of these hatch as veligers to begin life. Provided 95% of these veligers perish prior to reaching adulthood, then
Mr. deVaul took a fall litter of a single spawn. To prevent regression in malacological science, we would be better advised
to admonish collectors to collect with moderation, i.e. not to take specimens which they cannot share with museums or other
collectors, preserve collecting grounds and egg-masses and refrain from taking juveniles which will be prevented from
reaching sexual maturity and propagation.
In our driving desire to protect the Queen Conch or mollusks in general, we tend to overlook the dire need for the protection
of the Hominid species Homo sapiens. In our own peculiar highly cultured and civilized way we managed to exterminate 30
million of our own species and mutilated the same number within 5 short years. One day there may not be enough of us left to
admire the frilly fronds of the lovely Muricid which was threatened: with extinction anno Domini 1966.
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