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Jewelry ornamentalJewelry ornamental The sea shell 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. Jewelry ornamentalJewelry ornamental We anchored as close as we dared. Bill and I went over the side into water as clear as gin, to discover a piscean wonderland. A glance around was like flicking through the pages of a color illustrated fish encyclopedia. Jewelry ornamental jewelry ornamental,philippines shells coralbones,philippines heishe,philippines shells cunos,natural history of philippines native jewelry,handmade jewilry,shells jeweled design,jewelry tiles,wholesale philippines fashion,jewelry ornamental
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