
NEW YORK SHELL CLUB NOTES No. 255 October 1979 Page 7 
lected in Australia. In 1965 F. Schilder proposed the name Cypraea 
langfordi moretonensis as a subspecies to delineate the shells found 
in Rustralia from those found in Japan. I have found that there are 
no significant differences between the shells from the two different 
areas in the rather limited sampling that I have been able to see. 
The illustrated specimen was collected at an unspeci 
Ilan, which is in the northeastern portion of i persia rg te 
cial fishing boat. The shell measures just short of 48mm in length 
and has a maximum width of 31mm and a height of 24mm. The most 
striking feature of this shell is its color and pattern. The dorsum 
is very light coffee-colored and strongly flecked with darker brown. 
The callus, dorsal band and base are very bright orange. The in- 
terior of the shell is white, as are its teeth. Overall, this spec- 
imen is quite a bit lighter in color than the one from Tosa Bay 
that Burgess illustrates in his book (p. 54, rlate 3, figs. D1 and 
D2). The dorsum of his specimen also seems to have darker brown 
speckling and the dorsal band looks more brown than orange. Also, 
the base of his specimen is darker and is white surrounding the 
teeth, whereas on the specimen seen here the orange color continues 
to the teeth. The columellar groove is simple and smooth and has 
several strong inner denticles near the anterior canal. There is a 
strongly developed terminal ridge beyond which a deep sulcus is 
formed on the columellar groove. 
There are 29 well developed teeth 
on the columellar side and 26 
more strongly developed teeth on 
the labial. The aperture is sim- 
ple and slightly recurved towards 
the posterior end of the columel- 
la. It is in all a most striking 
and desirable specimen. 
I do not consider the fact that 
this specimen was collected in 
the Republic of China rather than 
in Japan to be of any great sig- 
nificance. I have in the past 
seen several other specimens with 
just "Taiwan" given as the gener- 
al data. Unlike several of the 
Cypraea langfordi Kuroda, 1938 other deep-water species, though, 
this species, to the best of my 

L:48mm, W:31mm, H:24mm knowledge, has not yet been found 
Specimen in the collection of in the Philippines -- although I 
Mr. and Mrs. P. Maltese have every reason to suspect that 
Chamblee, Georgia. it someday will be. 
Photograph by Robert Janowsky 
MARY WEISS 
We report the death on August 25th of Marilyn (Mary) Weiss after a 
long and tragically wasting illness. 
Our condolences are extended to her husband, Sol, and their families. 

