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Natural tradeNatural trade Fiji: Mr. W. O. Cernohorsky has quoted walkeri bregeriana from New Caledonia and Fiji, in his recently published Catalogue of Living Cypraeidae (Frankfurt-Main 1963). In fact, since 1962 at least eight bregeriana have been collected in Fiji, all off the West Coast (Nadi and Momi) facing towards the chief habitat of bregeriana, New Caledonia; especially Mr. A. Jennings has dredged, at the islands Wading, Akuilau, and Namotu (20 miles off Nadi) several dead and living specimens, one oliviform shell included of which I could examine the radula (Mr. Cernohorsky presented me a shell from Momi, coll. Schilder No. 17154, which is 17 mm. long). All specimens show the typical orange base, often darker brown in the center of the inner lip, and the peculiar white specks on base and margins, but they are much smaller (16 to 21 mm., mean 18 mm.) than typical bregeriana from New Caledonia (20 to 33 mm., mean 25 mm.). These shells look like a population displaced far from its original habitat in New Caledonia, where bregeriana is less rare, to an area with less favorable environments, as it is in the two dwarf Erosaria ocellata Linnaeus from Tjilanat Eureun, South West Java widely separated from their Indian relations (see 1938, Prodrome, p. 138). Natural tradeNatural trade On October 24th, on the open reef, in about fifteen feet of Makaha water, the catch was two Conus distans, 93 and 83.5mm high. The smaller had a Hipponix pilosus attached to the spire, and, as it had moved a number of times, here was considerable erosion. Natural trade natural trade,fashion compound,man native philippine jewelry,handmade surfer,philippines shells jewelery,wholesale jewelry native,philippines products native market basket,jewelry wedding,philippines shells inlayed item,natural trade
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