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Family Triphoridae

HAWAII

Mastonia cingulifera

Mokapu, Oahu

BELTED TRIPHORID

Common under rocks at any depth.  Yellow-brown with uppermost and bottom three small spirals on last whorl red-brown, anterior siphonal canal not completely closed, strongly recurved.  Attains 5mm.  Hawaii & the Indo-Pacific.