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The Atoll of Funafuti, Ellice group : its zoology, botany, ethnology and general structure based on collections made by Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, N.S.W.
Conus tulipa, Linne
Conus tulipa, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 87, pl. xxviii., figs. 80, 81; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 355, 365.
I picked up a single specimen on the western beach of Funafuti.
Garrett obtained this at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Cook's, Society, Paumotus, Marquesas and Hawaii. Crosse and Marie note it from the Islands of Lifu, Art and Pines, New Caledonia. Examples from Torres Straits and Erromanga, New Hebrides, exist in this Museum.