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Updated 11/26/2013

Family Neritidae

HAWAII - FRESHWATER

Theodoxus vespertinus 

 

Waikiki Aquarium

WI

Locally common in the lower, often brackish, section of unaltered streams attached to boulders.  Threatened with extinction due to diversion of stream waters and construction of concrete stream banks.  Shell flattened, olive green with somewhat lighter underside.  Attains 1 inch.  Endemic to Hawaii.  Formerly known as Neritina vespertina.