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Updated 12/28/2025

Family Fasciolariidae & Dolicholatiridae

Spindles

Spindles have red body parts and feed upon snails using corrosive saliva.  Egg capsules look like wine glasses with a hole in the top. 

Yellowmouth Spindle eggs

 

 

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Fusinus sandvichensis  

HAWAIIAN SPINDLE

 		 Cyrtulus mauiensis 

MAUI SPINDLE

 
Marmorofusus michaelrogersi 

MICHAEL ROGERS' SPINDLE

 

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Peristernia chlorostoma

YELLOWMOUTH SPINDLE

 		 Peristernia ustulata

SINGED SPINDLE

 

 Crassicantharus noumeensis

GOLD-BANDED SPINDLE

 

 Nodolatirus nodatus

KNOBBY SPINDLE

 

CALIFORNIA

Kelletia kelletii

KELLETT'S WHELK

 

TROPICAL WESTERN ATLANTIC

Pleuroploca gigantea

FLORIDA HORSE CONCH

 

Fasciolaria tulipa

TRUE TULIP