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You will note that Area 4 is about 18 feet (3 fathoms) deeper than the area immediately off-shore. In this deep water (12
fathoms) lies a large expanse of deep sand in constantly moving windrows. This area has produced only sand dwellers common in
most such habitats of Philippines. The only exceptional shell collected from this area were quite large Terebra maculata.
Area 5 is also quite barren since it is basically deep coral in heavy windrows. Trochus intextus and Turbo intercostalis are
the only shells found regularly in this area. Both shells being quite common in areas much easier to collect from than this.
In a sand patch between two windrows of coral I did collect my first live Tonna perdix and, in another nearby spot, my first
live Tritonalia tritonis. On the inshore edge of this area I also collected a dead specimen of Murex elongatus. The second
specimen of this shell found at Barber's Point was collected along the dashed line just under the letter "n" in pipeline.
Both men decided to make a "'Molluscan Survey" of the coast by dredging and skin-diving from Rio de Janerio to Rio Grande do
Norte including the Fernando de Noronha Ids. which are located 800 kilometers from the mainland. In so doing, they collected
over 50 species of shells not recorded from this area, as well as over 20 species thought to be new to science.
Off Bahia, they collected over six specimens of the rare Strombus goliath and were able to lay out the growth series shown on
page 5 [above].
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