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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.
Cypæa talpa, Linne
Cypæa talpa, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 167, pl. iii., figs. 31-33; Garrett, loc. cit., pp. 107, 119.
One empty shell was found at Funafuti with C. argus.
Garrett collected this deep-water species at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Cook's, Society, Paumotus, and Hawaii. It is shown in this Museum to occur in British New Guinea, the Solomons, Erromanga, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Niue.