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The aim of the dictionary is to record as far as possible the pronunciations prevailing in the best current usage. It does
not attempt to dictate what that usage should be. So don't be afraid of Latin names. Since the pronunciation is correct if "a
sufficient number of cultivated speakers" use it, you may be contributing to the next edition of the dictionary if you and
your fellow shell-club members get together on the pronunciation of a scientific name.
[Note: due to special markings in the article, enlarged images of pertinent sections are used below.
Last year Frank Adams took a friend, Dennis Griffin, ETSN, of the U.S.S. Goldsborough, to Kuhio Beach to teach him how to
look for shells. Incidentally Kuhio Beach is a popular bathing and surfing area in Waikiki and therefore heavily populated.
Sea conditions were too bad for scuba diving off-shore but Frank and Dennis were able to work in shallow water inside the
breakers. As they snorkeled along the surface, Frank would point out likely looking coral slabs under which he or Dennis
might find shells. Then they would dive down turn over the slab and fan the silt. This searching produced two Conus pennaceus
and one Cypraea moneta.
Over 60 specimens of P. humphreysi from 14 Viti Levu and Vanua Levu localities were examined, and the color pattern was found
to be highly variable; specimens from Akuilau Island (Nadi Bay) and Nananui-Ra Isld. (Nth.-Viti Levu), were exceptionally
dark, with the brown spots so dense that the milky-white base color was almost obscured. Specimens from the Nadroga and Suva
reefs were generally lighter in color, and the number of either brown or white dorsal zones varied from 0 - 4. Specimens
varied in size from 11mm - 20mm, and were either slender or squat and broad, hardly margined at all or with a pronounced
marginal callus. There should be no difficulty to select specimens from these series of shells which would match the
type-figures of C. humphreysi Gray, P. lutea yaloka Steadman & Cotton, or any other figure illustrating humphreysi in the
major monographs on the Cypraeidae.
Fijian specimens of P. l. humphreysi when compared with specimens of the species from the Great Barrier Reef, Qld.,
Australia, and those from Samoa, do not exhibit any morphological differences which would be worth chronicling. The specimens
of P. l. humphreysi from harbor dredgings of Apia Harbor (Upolu) and Asau Harbor (Savaii), Samoa, together with specimens of
Pustularia cicercula (Linnaeus) and Bistolida pallidula (Gaskoin), are new verified records from this region, and were
obtained by Mr. A. Jackson from Apia.
If we refer to the original descriptions of some Cypraeidae species, e.g. errones, caurica, helvola, poraria and staphylaea,
all established by Linnaeus (Syst. Nat., 1758), we shall realize how detailed Gray's description of humphreysi is in
comparison. Linnaeus' description of these five species consists of from 5 - 11 words and no references to figures are cited.
The elucidation of many Linnaean species has to be usually looked for in the works of revising subsequent authors.
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