Lynn Scheu wrote:
 
> Also, are the albinistic Cypraea cribraria you mentioned the variety called
> Cypraea cribraria melwardi? I've seen some completely white specimens of
> those. If I hadn't seen others collected in the same area with vestiges of
> cribraria markings on them, I'd hardly believe they were C. cribraria.  And
> do they come from elsewhere besides Tryon Island?  Interesting. And where
> else  (or where) are the Queensland melanistics you mention from?
 
Hello!
 
Hi Lynn and all,
 
There are other populations of cribraria that exhibit albinistic clines ie from
 
full color/spotted to all white, the Solomons population. From what I have
been told the intermediate forms (partly spotted) of melwardi are the most
common with white being the hardest to find.
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Later,
 
Emilio Jorge Power
 
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