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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 caput-serpentis, Linne
Cypæa caput-serpentis, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 173, pl. vi., figs. 98 - 100, xxiii., fig. 59; Garrett, loc. cit,, pp. 106, 111.
Commonly found alive under stones in shallow water in the Funafuti lagoon.
Seen by Garrett in Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Gilberts, Carolines, Cooks, Society, Paumotus and Marquesas. This extends along the Australian coast south to Sydney, and is also represented in this Museum from Erromanga, New Caledonia, Lord Howe Island, Niue, and the Gilberts. The natives of Funafuti call this "pourei."