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Editor’s comments:<br />
So far as I know, most C. ostergaardi from<br />
Oahu were found near Waikiki. Ray McKinsey<br />
found one ten feet from me at Haleiwa one day<br />
many years ago at about 60 feet under rubble. I<br />
found one fairly far from that spot but also at<br />
Haleiwa in a goody bag someone had lost and left<br />
Recent finds continued by David Watts continued<br />
on the bottom. I also found a quite dead specimen<br />
off Waikiki after a hurricane had moved a lot of<br />
sand.<br />
The majority I know of are from Kauai<br />
where a group of us looked for several weeks in<br />
the correct area with no luck.<br />
We would be glad to hear from the rest of<br />
the lucky people who have found one or more.<br />
Cymatium rubeculum by David Watts<br />
A B<br />
Cymatium (Septa)<br />
rubeculum (Linnaeus, 1758)<br />
29.4 mm<br />
I was diving with Trenton Tam off Nanakuli<br />
on <strong>Mon</strong>day, 9 October, 2006. We were at<br />
about 40 to 50 feet deep, swimming along a ledge<br />
and I noticed a Cymatium under a small coral head.<br />
I got it out from under the coral head and could<br />
see that it was a large Cymatium rubeculum. It was<br />
crabbed, but still had the periostracum on it so it<br />
was fresh dead. I don’t find nice red specimens<br />
very often at all, and when I do, they are usually<br />
quite small. This one is quite large and in great<br />
shape.<br />
<strong>Internet</strong> <strong>Hawaiian</strong> <strong>Shell</strong> <strong>News</strong> December 2006 <strong>Mon</strong>th Section page 13
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