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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.
The following day several collecting stations were made on the main island of the atoll, both on the ocean reef as well as on
the lagoon side and in one of the shallow passes, where Tridacna maxima Röding was common. Very abundant on one of the lagoon
beaches were dead but perfect pairs of Asaphis deflorata L. That morning we had a visit from the chief of the village, who
had been on the neighboring atoll of Hao and who invited us to the village that evening. After supper we all went ashore, and
in the schoolhouse with an audience of only seven adults and two children, we were received officially and welcomed by the
chief, whose remarks were translated into French by the school teacher. All of us received the customary shell necklaces.
Afterwards we invited the chief, his wife, and a few others to a small party on board the "Maylis."
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On the rocks in Bounty Bay we found Nerita (Melanerita) morio Sby., for which Pitcairn is one of the type localities and
which is distinct from the superficially similar black Nerite found on the rocks in Tahiti. The common limpet found there,
however, is probably identical with Cellana tahitensis Pease. Drupa ricinus L. is on these rocks also. Several species of
Planaxis were found under the loose stones, including the endemic Planaxis pigra Forbes. On the marine terrace Cypraea
caputserpentis was gathered. In the debris line on the other side of the island, at "The Rope," Mike Hall found worn
specimens of what seems to be the distantly lirate form of Turbo argyrostomus L. and a form of Conus miliaris Hwass (or a
distinct related species) identical to that found on Easter Island. All in all, the molluscan fauna of Pitcairn impressed me
as a depauperate Polynesian one with a distinct endemic element that allies it with Easter Island.
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