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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 luhuanus, Linne
Strombus luhuanus, Linne.
Tryon, loc. cit., p. 122, pl. viii., figs. 91, 92.
Abundant alive on sandy patches between rocks in the lagoon of Funafuti. The natives call it "paneia" and esteem it as food.
Tryon quotes it from New Guinea and Fiji, and Melvill and Standen from Lifu. It extends along the Australian coast south to Sydney.*
* Hedley—Proc. Linn. Soc N.S.W., xxi., 1896, p. 83.