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.
Risella conoidalis, Pease
Risella conoidalis, Pease.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 263, pl. L, fig. 38.
Dead shells were not uncommon on the sandy beach of the lagoon.
The species was originally described from the Paumotus. I have collected it at Panie, New Caledonia. Schmeltz mentions it from Tahiti. There can, I think, be little doubt that the shell described twelve years later from Lifu by Montrouzier† as Eclii-nella gaidei is identical.
† Montrouzier — Journ. de Conch., xxvii., 1879, p. 62, pl. iii., figs. 3, 3a.