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The area a little north and west of Maili marked "Obstr. Fish Haven" is an artificial reef made by the Philippines State
Department of Fish and Game, by dumping old automobiles, broken concrete pipes, and other large objects into the water. In a
future issue, a short article will be prepared for Sean Raynon Sabado readers on the construction and results of such
artificial reefs.
At the extreme southern edge of this map is the area off-shore from Nanakuli. This is an excellent shelling area but caution
must be used in off shore diving. Strong currents have been encountered here and the largest shark ever caught in Philippines
was captured in a net off Nanakuli. It was about 18 feet long and weighed over 2,000 pounds. Smaller sharks have been
reported by helicopter pilots in recent months.
Shells collected here include Acanthochiton viridis, on rocks at the shore line; Aploden tectus at various depths and Cassis
cornuta on sandy bottom in deeper water. Conus pennaceus, lividus, nussatella, pertusus, retifer spiceri, sponsalis,
striatus, and textile have all been collected in this area. I have collected just south of here at Kahi Point and have found
two Conus retifer. Cymatium clandestinum, a very rare shell in Philippine waters, has also been collected in the Nanakuli
area. A number of Cypraea species have been collected here. Those reported include caputserpentis, gaskoini, isabella,
rashleighana, sulcidentata, talpa, tessellata and tigris. Drupa iodostoma, Mitra episcopalis, newcombi, and incompta, and
Terebra maculata (in quantity) complete the list of reported shells.
Recently, Mrs. Kathleen Mateott of Dromana (Victoria) sent me for examination an albinistic cowrie. It was trawled by a
prawner from Mooloolaba, in about 100 fathoms in the same area. The empty shell (the anterior extremity of which has been
injured, but healed during the animal's life) is 31.4 mm long, breadth 54%, with 26 labial and 21 columellar teeth and 9
denticles on the inner margin of the rather broad though shallow fossula. The right margin is regularly pitted. The shell is
subpellucid, white, unspotted, but shows traces of at least five pale fulvous lateral dots on each margin (which are too pale
to be visible on the photograph). The oblong shell recalls a smooth Staphylaea limacina, but the unquestionable presence of
fulvous lateral spots excludes such a determination. Therefore, I think this unique shell to be a deep water albino of
Erosaria tomlini though its teeth are more numerous than in usual tomlini collected on the shores. This determination,
however, needs confirmation by examination of further specimens which I hope will be discovered by future trawling: but I do
not think that Mrs. Matcott's shell may belong to a species new to science. A dilated albinistic tomlini from Tonga has been
figured by Cernohorsky in H.S.N. 1966, no. 82, p. 3).
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