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Capt. and Mrs. Mal Loring, with daughters Jackie and Cathy had a successful day too. Mrs. Loring excavated an excellent
specimen of Strombus variabilis and a fragile, as yet unidentified, shell. Dr. Osborne's previous experience in fossil areas,
really helped produce a fine collection of specimens. "Doc" found and collected a Cypraea scurra (with reticulations still
evident), 4 C. cicercula 10 to 16 mm in length and in good condition, 2 C. semiplota, an excellent specimen of Strombus
ostergaardi 15 mm long and an almost perfect juvenile Strombus identified tentatively as S. gibberulus gibbosus. Conus
rattus, Mitra, Bulla, Polinices and 6 other unidentified shells completed her "haul" for the day.
Other finds were made by Mrs. Tom Shields (Strombus mutabilis); Mr. Andrus. Verne Olney and son (Strombus ostergaardi,
Cypraea cicercula, and C. tessellata); Mr. and Mrs. Bill Mitchell came up with Conus bullatus, tulipa, and spiceri and a
large Bursa affinis; and us O'Briens (Bob, Aline and children Jim, Mike, Carol, Pat, Terrie, and David) had a fine day of
collecting. Mike made the find of the day (as far as our family was concerned, at least) with three Cypraea scurra and a
beautiful specimen of Conus mitatis, the first to be found in Philippines (see pg. 3) [image not included].
Others present included Mr. and Mrs. Harold Androus; Richard Schulze and son Dennis; Laurie Sanderson and her parents and
baby sister; Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Thompson; Ed deVaul; George Miller; and Mr. and Mrs. Anderson with sons Leland and Rex who
found a fossil Cypraea mauritiana.
The weather was perfect, warm and sunny, and the ocean was calm. Some members took to the water with SCUBA and came back with
a few specimens of live-collected shells. The only species live-collected that was also found as a fossil was Cypraea
mauritiana. I wonder what happened to all the rest of the species in the million or so years since this fossil bed was
formed?
For the reader who needs further proof of indiscriminate shell collecting practices now going on, we give him the following
verified accounts which occurred during the last few months:
Judging from beach results I think the following areas may prove profitable for future exploration:
Haga-Haga, Cypraea capensis; Kei Mouth, Epitonium coronatum; Bashee Mouth (to right of Hotel), Cypraea marginalis, Cypraea
carneola, Cypraea chinensis; Coffee Bay, Cypraea vitellus, Cypraea helvola; Xora Mouth, this locality has species also found
on east and south coast including Voluta africana, Cypraea citrina, vitellus, helvola, arabica, moneta, and Tonna variegata.
I think this should prove the most profitable during the winter months of July and August.
In Sean Raynon Sabado (n.s.) 72:8 (1965), Dr. R. Tucker Abbott tried to prove that the specific name Cypraea arenosa Gray
(1824) is not preoccupied by Cypraea arenosa Dillwyn (1823) and therefore should be restored. His deductions, however, are
erroneous and caused further confusion among collectors.
First, Dillwyn did not say that arenosa is a synonym of pantherina as suggested by Dr. Abbott, for Dillwyn's explanation to
Lister's figure 685.32 runs as follows: "Quoted by Dr. Solander in his Ms. for his Cypraea arenosa; and it is probably a
young shell of Cypraea pantherina." Therefore he adopted Solander's name in the same way, as he quoted, on the same page, the
published Cypraea nebulosa of Gmelin and C. cervus of Linnaeus as varieties of stercoraria and C. exanthema respectively. In
1827, Dillwyn treated "Cypraea arenosa of Solander" as a synonym of C. turdus.
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