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*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.
The north shore of Oahu is a difficult area to collect during most of the year. But a day of collecting in this area can
easily be one of the most rewarding in number of species collected. Also it is an area where rare shells are frequently
found.
Imagine yourself plodding along the beach at Haleiwa Bay. You have already collected six species of Conus, five species of
Mitra, a 5-inch Cypraea tigris, and then you find a lovely specimen of Murex pele washed up on the beach, dead of course, but
a very nice specimen. That's the way it sometimes goes along the north shore.
The other side of the picture (tradition has it that there must be two sides) is not quite so perfect. In fact it could be
completely the opposite. For after a long drive across the Island the surf might be up, as it frequently is during trade wind
weather, preventing any shelling, at least for a few days.
Occasionally excellent shelling occurs right after a really big surf pounds the north shore. The largest waves occur during
the winter months and are the result of tremendous winter storms far out at sea. The storm-propagated [storm-generated] waves
travel across the Pacific and, when approaching the shoaling water around Oahu, begin to pile up and travel even faster until
they strike the rocky shores with a thunderous crash. The onrushing water picks up bits of coral, sand, gravel, and shells
(occasionally) casting them high up on the beach. Some of the shells do not follow the rushing backwash into the sea but
stay, high and dry, on the shore to be added to some lucky person's collection.
During periods of quiet water, skin and SCUBA divers find good collecting off Sunset Beach, including such species as
Charonia tritonis, Conus abbreviatus, flavidus, pennaceus, and rattus have been collected. Also Cypraea gaskoini, mauritiana,
and rashleighana, as well as Oliva sandwichensis, Strombus hawaiensis and maculatus. Charonia tritonis is usually found under
the overhang of a ledge or in a cave. Probably this is why they are seldom washed ashore. I have also collected them from
inside huge, hollow coral heads, living in peace with lobsters and moray eels. Some species of cones found on the north shore
live under small coral rubble or coral heads, buried in the small amount of silty sand that usually manages to stay put under
the coral, while other species lie exposed on the hard bottom. Shore collectors have found Cypraea cicercula, semiplota,
nucleus, and one Strombus hawaiensis as a reward for that early morning trek to the beach when they managed to be the first
collectors to arrive on the scene. In the coral boulders along shore fossil Cypraea ostergaardi have been collected.
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