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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).
*Cypraea helvola Linnaeus Tubuai: 1 worn, dead specimen on beach near Mataura. Rimatara: 1 dead but fairly fresh specimen
from beach. Cypraea caputserpentis L. Found on all four islands visited: Raevavae, Tubuai, Rurutu, Rimatara; fairly common on reefs. *Cypraea poraria L. Rimatara: 1 dead specimen on beach. *Cypraea erosa L. Rurutu: 1 dead specimen near Moerai. Cypraea obvelata Lam. Common on reefs on Tubuai and Rurutu. The Tubuai specimens, collected among rubble on the lagoon side
of Motu Moturoa on the eastern side of the barrier reef, were all of the typical form. The two lots gathered on Rurutu on the
fringing reef near the village of Moerai represent an ecotype with a reduced callus or torus around the dorsal area,
resembling therein annulus but lacking the typical blunt carination of the sides found in Polynesian specimens of the latter
species. Cypraea moneta L. Found on Raevavae, Tubuai and Rurutu; undoubtedly present on all islands. Cypraea isabella L. Raevavae: 1 dead on beach. Rimatara: 3 dead shells. *Cypraea scurra Gmelin Rurutu: dead shell. Tubuai-- 1 fragment. Rimatara: 2 dead specimens. Cypraea maculifera Schilder Raevavae; 1 dead shell, 1 on reef flat at Motu Veiamanu, on barrier reef south of Raevavae.
Rurutu: 3 specimens from reefs, vicinity of Moerai. Rimatara: 1 dead shell from beach. Maria: 1 specimen from reef. *Cypraea depressa Gray Tubuai: 1 dead shell from beach near Mataura. Cypraea (Lyncina) vitellus L. Tubuai: 1 specimen collected at night in lagoon off south end of Motu Moturoa. *Cypraea (Lyncina) leviathan Schilder & Schilder Raevavae: 1 dead specimen from beach, 78.25 mm in length. Cypraea (Lyncina) ventriculus Lam. Raevavae: 1 dead shell from beach. *Cypraea (Lyncina) schilderorum (Iredale) Dead shells were not rare Raevavae, Tubuai and Rimatara.
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