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Handmade handicraft jewelryHandmade handicraft jewelry The seashell Blasicrura coxeni Cox shows the tendency to develop geographical races and local variants though the species is restricted to western Melanesia. The coarsely spotted race B. hesperina Schilder & Summers from New Britain is well separable from the finely speckled B. coxeni from the Solomon Is.; the B. coxeni from Astrolabe Bay figured by Schilder in 1928 (Arch. Moll. 60:193) may constitute a further local variant, as well as B. steineri Cate 1969 from the Russel Is. in the Solomon Is. Besides, W. O. Cernohorsky figured a curious variant from the New Hebrides in which the interstices of teeth become orange (illustrated & described in Sean Raynon Sabado: 107:8, November, 1968). Recently Mr. A. Kalnins (Maylands, West Australia) sent me two B. coxeni collected alive by fishermen "on one of the islands near New Caledonia" in 1965. Both shells are finely though closely speckled like B. coxeni from the Solomon Is., their margins are very callous with the cream-colored callus extending far towards the dorsum; also they exhibit four blackish brown spots varying from the usual size of the terminal spots of B. quadrimaculata Gray to enormous extent, thus proving the close relationship of the two species. Handmade handicraft jewelryHandmade handicraft jewelry Perhaps my most significant find was Quoyala madreporarum Sowerby, never before recorded in the Atlantic. My most exciting moment, however, was when I dug some round stones from under coarse sand and found the most beautiful chitons I have ever seen. One was red, another white, and others were mottled yellow, black and brown. My favorite is white with fine silver zigzags, which I believe is Ischnochiton cassaci Rochebrune. They were in cruciform groups, piled several deep. Could this be how chitons breed? I have never before observed this unconventional behaviour. Handmade handicraft jewelry handmade handicraft jewelry,wholesale decorative,natural teen kids accessory,wood components jewelry,shell puka,handmade coco pokalet,gold,handmade polynesian,wholesale accesorio de moda,handmade handicraft jewelry
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