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.
Natica violacea, Sowerby
Natica violacea, Sowerby.
Tryon, Man. Conch, viii., 1886, p. 18, pl. iii., fig. 41.
One dead and broken example from the beach of the lagoon.
Tryon quotes this from Fiji; Melvill and Standen from Lifu. In this Museum it is represented from the Bampton Reef, Coral Sea and New Caledonia.