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Family Fasciolariidae

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

 

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HAWAII

Peristernia chlorostoma

YELLOWMOUTH SPINDLE

 		 Benimakia nodatus

KNOBBY SPINDLE

 
Fusinus sandvichensis  

HAWAIIAN SPINDLE

 		 Fusinus michaelrogersi 

MICHAEL ROGER'S SPINDLE

 

 

CALIFORNIA

Kelletia kelletii

KELLETT'S WHELK