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Violet oyster shell heishe
This sounds simple. Actually it is chaotic, because there is no one correct English pronunciation. There is no one and only
one right way of speaking English. For example, let us take an Englishman, a Bostonian, a resident of Alabama, and a native
of Indiana. These four people would probably pronounce the same word in four different ways -- each speaking correctly for
his locality. Add to this the fact that people who speak languages other than English pronounce scientific names with the
sounds and values of their native tongues. According to Kenyon, 6 "a pronunciation is correct when it is in actual use by a
sufficient number of cultivated speakers." This is obviously elastic. The conclusion one must reach is that there is no
single standard of correct pronunciation.
There are, however, rules for the English pronunciation of Latin which are accepted as guides by the philologists who compile
our dictionaries. We have attempted to digest and simplify these complicated, verbose rules so that amateur conchologists may
have some assurance that they are approximating the pronunciation of scientific names of shells as practiced by professional
malacologists. obviously incomplete, this guide should be supplemented by consulting an unabridged dictionary in case of
question. Frequently the exact word may be found or, if not, ,one can make a reasoned judgment from an analogous English
word.
The large cowrie Umbilia hesitata (Iredale) is rather frequent in deep waters around the Bass Strait, i.e., in northern
Tasmania and in Victoria, reaching the most southern area of New South Wales from Twofold Bay to Montagu Island. Farther
north in New South Wales the species becomes much rarer, and the specimens are distinctly smaller. So far as I know, only
five shells have been collected in the northern area, viz. at Ulladulla (coll. Schilder, ex coll. W. O. Cernohorsky), Nowra
(the smallest known shells of 54 and 56 mm: coll. Schilder, ex coll. W. Krause), Wollongong (Angas 1867), and Port Stephens
(Beddome 1898: coll. J. R. Le Brockton Tomlin).
Recently, Mr. S. R. Shadlow (Mermaid Beach, Qld.) has sent me, for examination, a live shell dredged from 96 fathoms off
Point Lookout (Stradbroke Island, which belongs to Queensland). The shell figured above (figs. 3-5) is full grown, 70 mm
long, white, with very pale fulvous dorsal spots mostly arranged along the purplish-grey dorsal line, and chestnut lateral
spots. The extremities are suffused dorsally with rich greyish brown.
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