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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 mauritiana, Linne
Cypæa mauritiana, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 173, pl. vii., figs. 8-11.
Specimens of this were purchased from the natives of Funafuti.
Collected by Garrett at Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Cook's, Society, Paumotus, Marquesas, and Hawaii, and by Rossiter in New Caledonia and the Loyalties. Weinkauff mentions it from the Pelew Islands. I have seen it from the British and German Boundary, N.E. New Guinea. In this Museum it is also represented from Aneiteum and Erromanga, New Hebrides, and Niue.