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Family Muricidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Drupa rubusidaea

Kahe Pt., Oahu, 30 feet, 26mm

 

Ala Moana, Oahu, 50 feet, 37mm

Firehouse, Oahu, 40 feet

PINKMOUTH DRUPE

Common under dead coral deeper than 15 feet.  Typically encrusted with coralline algae.  Aperture is bright pink and yellow.  Attains 2 inches.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.  Formerly known as Drupa rubusidaeus.