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Updated 4/13/2014

Family Strombidae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC (Subfossil)

Canarium mutabile ostergaardi 

Sand Is., Oahu, 28mm

OSTERGAARD'S STROMB

Subfossil shells are common in dredged fill from Honolulu Harbor.  Attains 1.5 inch.  Extinct Hawaiian subspecies formerly known as Strombus mutabilis ostergaardi.