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.
Atys Cylindrica, Helbling
Atys Cylindrica, Helbling.
Pilsbry, Man. Conch., xv., 1893, p. 265, pl. xxxiii., figs. 60- 64.
Abundant on the lagoon beach.
This common Pacific shell ranges in Australia from Torres Straits southwards to Port Stephens, N.S.W.; the "Challenger" met it in Fiji; I took it at Noumea, New Caledonia, and the Museum has received from Mr. N. Hardy a specimen he collected at Aneiteum, New Hebrides.