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.
Cassis cornuta, Linne
Cassis cornuta, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit, p. 270, pl. i., figs. 45, 46; pl. ii., fig. 49.
I collected no examples of this personally, but at Funafuti I remarked it in use as shell trumpets, and at Nukulailai I purchased specimens. There the natives called it "pou," and told me it was not rare. New Caledonian examples are contained in this Museum.