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From Rabaul, New Guinea: A native collector wrote to us offering 136 live-collected Cypraea coxeni. From a different source
we received an offer of 200 coxeni. To further the evidence of "slaughter," an American collector passed through Honolulu
recently with over 175 specimens of New Guinea coxeni in his luggage to be used "for trading," so he said.
From Florida, U.S.A.: Fishermen trawlers just sold 230 live-collected Voluta junonia johnstonae and 203 specimens of Voluta
kieneri. The kieneri were all small (4" to 5") and the junonia were of "poor quality"!!!
These accounts barely touch on the world-wide destruction of molluscan fauna now taking place daily to supply the
ever-growing shell market.
Dealers and shell clubs alike should unite in a concerted conservation program before depletion of this nature puts them both
out of business.
Saturday, April 2, 1966 will be a day I will remember for a long time. This was the morning that I found a beautiful, perfect
2-1/2" specimen of Conus bullatus.
Diving buddies Mal Loring of the Hickam Sea Lancers, and Reg Grimm of the San Francisco Skin Divers, were with me at a depth
of 75 feet off Pokai Bay when I spotted what looked like a typical 2" wide Terebra maculata track in a small sand pocket
between coral clumps. The trail lead from the edge of a coral boulder out into the center of the sand patch, and ended. A
quick fanning action across the track's end uncovered a brilliant red cone. I didn't know what I had for sure but I knew it
was something special. When I showed it to Mal and Reg sand really began to fly as they searched for the mate to my shell.
The underwater area well off Kahi Point is a good spot for Cypraea tigris. A skin diver can have a good day in this area. I
have collected Conus retifer there also. Figs. 1 & 2:
Strombus mutabilis
Swainson, 1821
(fossil) taken by C. Weaver
at 20 ft. elevation, Kaena
Point, Oahu. Length 30 mm.
Photos - Weaver -- Actual size
Figs. 3 & 4:
Strombus ostergaardi
Pilsbry, 1921
(fossil) taken by C. Weaver
at 15 ft. elevation, Nanakuli
Sea Cliffs, Oahu.
Length 21 mm.
[Unfortunately, my copy of this issue
is a Xerox copy, made when text
clarity was about all that one could
hope for! makuabob]
These are the only fossil areas that I have worked. However, Cliff Weaver, Pat Burgess, and many other HMS members have
collected many fine shells, either universally extinct or extinct in Philippines, at other locations. Traveling on around the
island of Oahu these fossil beds may be found at:
1. The Waianae quarry, where the two specimens of Ostrea kamehameha were found. This is located about three quarters of a
mile east of the former location of the Waianae railway station.
2. At Kaena Point, Cliff Weaver has collected Strombus mutabilis and Reg Gage collected several species of Lambis. Other
species such as Conus tulipa, Patella melanostoma, and Septifer kraussii have also been collected there.
For those of you who have access to the Kaneohe Marine Corps air station on Mokapu Peninsula there is some fine fossil
collecting available on the peninsula side of Nuupia fish pond and along the coral plain making up the western part of the
peninsula. Sixteen species, including Cassis vibex and Strombus ostergaardi, have been collected in this area.
Professor Jens Ostergaard reported in a Bishop Museum paper on the fossils of Molokai and Maui. According to Professor
Ostergaard, fossils on Molokai exist only in an area of marine rock exposed by stream beds (Kalamaula Stream and its
tributaries) about one and a half miles west of Kaunakakai close to the area known in 1939, as Coconut Grove. On the Island
of Maui, Professor Ostergaard reported fossils found only at an area known as Target Range Gulch about six miles southeast of
Lahaina, again in areas eroded by stream action.
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