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Natural philippine necklaceNatural philippine necklace The recently described cowry E. rabaulensis (Schilder, 1964, Arch. Moll., 93:141-144, fig.1) has been recorded only from New Britain and is known from less than a dozen specimens. Mr. Mick Laurent collected a specimen of E. rabaulensis in 2 feet of water on Lilisiana reef, Malaita, Solomons, and forwarded the shell including the preserved animal for examination through Mr. 1. Gower. The shell measured 19.2 mm in length, 9.6 mm in width, labial teeth numbered 20, columellar ones 19. The shell is creamy-fawn with 4 narrow, brownish, interrupted and somewhat obsolete transverse zones, small spots and a dilacerated dark brown dorsal blotch; extremities have a pair of blackish-brown terminal blotches and teeth are dull and short. The radula shows that the species would be more properly assigned to the genus Erronea Tröschel, instead [of] Notadusta Schilder. Natural philippine necklaceNatural philippine necklace The following three or four afternoons, I collected in front of my hotel where I came up with more olives, money shells, and augers plus some Turbo and Mitra. Many Cypraea arabica and a few tigris and large Terebra were collected further out in from 6-10 feet of water. I even found a Conus tulipa under a broken coral head which was resting on the solid reef. I then moved out to just inside of the marginal reef where the broken coral heads were piled up by wave action. Some of these were pieces of "table" coral 1-6 inches thick and 20 feet in circumference. I flipped one of these over and lo-and-behold, there were two beautiful Conus nussatella. A thought struck me. In 1956 while collecting in the Philippines, the only two nussatella I found were under similar conditions, in the mouth of a bay on Samar Id. I started along in this rubble area turning over and turning back all the flat table coral that were lying on coarse rubble. During the next two hours, I collected 27 specimens of Conus nussatella, all live and fine. Natural philippine necklace natural philippine necklace,shell hand crafted jewelry,handmade giveaways,jewelry jewelry design,native picnic basket,pokalet,philippines earings,natural inlay,wood shells craft,natural philippine necklace
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