Proverbial Cowrie Sea Snails for the Hawaii Five-0 2010 Ninth Season

Summary: The proverb When the Sea Draws Out the Tidal Wave, the Rocks Where the Cowries Hide Are Exposed affects cowrie sea snails and Hawaii Five-0 Oct. 12, 2018.

Honey cowrie sea snail (Cypraea helvola), named in Hawaiian as leho opule, has an Indo-Pacific range that includes Hawaii and relates to the Hawaiian honey cowrie (Cypraea hawaiiensis); Northwest Hawaiian Islands; Photographer Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR; July 2004: NOAA Photo Libraryy, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr

The Hawaii Five-0 2010 active police procedural series episode When the Sea Draws Out the Tidal Wave, the Rocks Where the Cowries Hide Are Exposed Oct. 12, 2018, anticipates lulls before storms.

Director Antonio Negret and writer Rob Hanning base Season 9's third episode and title upon the olelo ao ("advice") Mimiki ke kai, ahuwale ka papa leho. The 196th episode considers catastrophe and crime clues through the proverb concerning moderately rising and quickly withdrawing lowest tide-like tsunami wave troughs before highest tide-like crests. The Indian and Pacific Ocean-dwelling sea snails in the Cypraeidae (from the Greek Κύπρις, Kypris, "Cypriot [Aphrodite]") marine gastropod mollusk family dote upon darkness, not day.

Tsunami wave patterns expose the Greek love goddess's reclusive cypraeids, examined taxonomically in 1815 by Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (Oct. 22, 1783-Sept. 18, 1840), to natural enemies.

Cowrie sea snails flourish among dead coral heads, empty bivalve shells, rocks, rubble and seaweed of intertidal zones, shallow tidal pools, rocky beaches and soft floors.

Weak-eyed cowrie sea snails, whose common name goes back to the Sanskrit कपर्द (kaparda, "braid, cowry, shell"), go after coastal, tropical algal, coral and sponge prey. They hide from predatory cone snails (Conidae venomous marine gastropod mollusc family); crabs (Brachyura 10-footed crustacean infraorder); octopuses (Octopoda eight-limbed mollusc order); and shell-collecting, snail-eating people. Extreme weather, globally warmed climate change, over-collection, pollution and predation interfere with cowrie sea snail life cycles whose reproduction means otherwise invite healthy, increasing, itinerant populations.

Female cowrie sea snails jet hundreds of eggs into water columns for sea-hatching elsewhere or jumble them into discarded clam shells for hatching in mother-brooded niches.

Juvenile cowrie sea snails know olive, paper-thin, uncoiled shells even though mature cowrie sea snails all keep bright-colored, coiled, color-patterned, egg-shaped, enamel-like, glossy, porcelain-like shiny shells.

Cowrie sea snails look slimy and small with flap-like, fleshy, jacket-like mantles whose secreted pigments leave complex-patterned sheens on cowrie sea snail shell exteriors, not interiors. Domed, humped, oft-speckled, polished, thick cowrie sea snail shells maintain mature 0.028- to 0.12-ounce (0.8- to 3.5-gram) weights and 0.19- to 7.48-inch (5- to 190-millimeter) lengths. They net flat bottoms with central, fine-toothed, slit-like openings and curved-lip, nodular, swollen mouths; camouflage- and respiration-friendly, hair-like mantle papillae; and rounded tops with unobtrusive spires.

Cowrie sea snail shells observe record sizes around the Hawaiian Islands and obtain cultural acclaim as ancient African, American, Asian, Australian, Oceanian currency, decoration and jewelry.

Alison's, Beck's, calf, carnelian, clear Chinese, eroded, humpback, Isabella, jester, lynx, mole, money, porous, Schilder's and waxy cowrie sea snails populate Hawaiian and other Indo-Pacific waters.

Anna's half-swimmer, Burgess', checkered, false nuclear, fringed, Gaskoin's, granulated, groove-toothed, half-swimmer, Maui's, Ostergaard's and Rashleigh's cowrie sea snails qualify as endemics (from Greek ἔνδημος, éndēmos, "native"). Hawaiian chick-pea, honey, leviathan, reticulated, snakehead and tiger cowry sea snails likewise rank among the Indo-Pacific Ocean cypraeids with disribution ranges exclusive to the Hawaiian Islands. Hawaii, like other Indo-Pacific Ocean habitat niches, sustains cowrie-like populations of drab-mantled stout volva, and 0.25-inch- (6.35-millimeter-) long barley grain trivia and rough trivia, sea snails.

Proverbial fast-rising, fast-falling coastal waters and the Schinasi-Hamra study from 2006-2015 of rising temperatures together tell the Hawaii Five-0 task force of troubled times to come.

During a heat wave of 100-degree-plus temperatures, Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) shoots par at Honolulu's Ala Wai Golf Course while the rest of the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force team confront aggressive situations in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0, season 9, episode 3, Mimiki Ke Kai, Ahuwale Ka Papa Leho: CBS Hawaii 5-0 episode 9.03 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Oct. 10, 2018

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Image credits:

Honey cowrie sea snail (Cypraea helvola), named in Hawaiian as leho opule, has an Indo-Pacific range that includes Hawaii and relates to the Hawaiian honey cowrie (Cypraea hawaiiensis); Northwest Hawaiian Islands; Photographer Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR; July 2004: NOAA Photo Library, CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/noaaphotolib/5114752418/;
Dr. Dwayne Meadows, NOAA/NMFS/OPR, via NOAA Photo Library @ https://www.photolib.noaa.gov/htmls/reef0672.htm;
CC BY 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reef0672_-_Flickr_-_NOAA_Photo_Library.jpg

During a heat wave of 100-degree-plus temperatures, Captain Lou Grover (Chi McBride) shoots par at Honolulu's Ala Wai Golf Course while the rest of the Hawaii Five-0 Task Force team confront aggressive situations in CBS TV's Hawaii Five-0 season 9, episode 3, Mimiki Ke Kai, Ahuwale Ka Papa Leho: CBS Hawaii Five-0 episode 9.03 promotional photo via SpoilerTV Oct. 10, 2018, @ https://www.spoilertv.com/2018/09/hawaii-five-0-episode-903-mimiki-ke-kai.html

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