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Updated 11/22/2012

Family Fasciolariidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Peristernia chlorostoma

Eggs, Kewalo, Oahu, 50 feet

Onekahakaha tidepool, Hawaii

YELLOWMOUTH SPINDLE

Common under rocks in shallow water.  Cream with varying amount of brown, aperture yellow.  Attains 3/4 inch.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.