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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.

Strombus floridus, Lamarck

Strombus floridus, Lamarck.

Tryon, loc. cit., p. 119, pl. vii., figs. 73 - 76, 80, 83.

Abundant alive in shallow water in the lagoon, associated with S. luhuanus.

Cuming saw this in the Society Islands, Tryon quotes it from Fiji, and Von Martens from Samoa.* It ranges along the Australian coast south to Sydney. In this Museum it is represented from Teste Island, Louisiades, Erromanga, New Hebrides, and Hawaii.

* Martens—Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool., xxi., 1889, p. 189.