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Family Triphoridae

HAWAII

Mastonia troglodytes

Mokapu, Oahu

RECLUSIVE TRIPHORID

Common under dead coral in shallow water.  Short & inflated, two rows of beaded spirals, suture indistinct, yellow with brown between granules, posterior canal absent, anterior canal short & recurved.  Attains 3mm.  Hawaii & the Western Pacific.