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The parade of cowry-authors down through the years is an impressive one: Gaskoin, Gray, Jousseaume, Hidalgo, Menke, Brazier,
Hedley, Cox, Iredale, Cotton, and perhaps the greatest workers of them all, the Schilders, who have devoted their lives to
the research of every possible facet that could be considered as pertinent to the study of Cypraea.
I'd like to single out just two or three of the more important of the systematic works in this family that have played a
major role in the various revisions that have taken place. First of these is the work published in 1884 by Jousseaume in the
Bulletin of Zoology in France. Jousseaume established, in this paper, many of the generic groups still in use today --
defining their limits and grouping species roughly into these genera.
Just inshore of Barber's Point lighted buoy is a more or less flat coral plateau. This area is best remembered, as far as my
diving is concerned, for two things. Most important, because it concerns shells, is that I collected six live and two dead
specimens of Murex insularum in a half hour dive on this coral plain. The second item is that the largest shark I ever
encountered in Philippines waters came face-to-face with me as I came up onto the top of the cliff from the deeper water
offshore. He seemed to be hovering there, perhaps measuring me for size. Other than the M. insularum this area offers little
in the way of collecting. It is basically barren, free of any coral heads or rubble. Simply a flat, hard ocean bottom.
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