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.
Conus rattus, Hwass
Conus rattus, Hwass.
Tryon, loc. cit, p. 41, pl. xii., figs. 25, 27.
A single living specimen was taken under a stone in the Funafuti lagoon.
Cuming saw this at Tahiti, and Anaa, Paumotus ‡ Crosse and Marie record it from Lifu and New Caledonia, and Weinkauff from Tonga. § A specimen from the Bampton Reef, Coral Sea, is in this Museum.
‡ ‡ Reeve—Loc. cit., pl. xv., sp. 78.
§ § Weinkauff—Conch. Cab., 1873, Conus, p. 134.