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updated 9/9/2012

Family Ranellidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL / HAWAII

Monoplex comptus

Oahu, 250 feet

DWARF TRITON

Rare in sand or rubble deeper than 150 feet.  Shell lightweight, siphonal canal elongate, recurved, aperture white.  Attains 1.5 inch.  Hawaii, Indo-West Pacific, Tropical Western Atlantic.  Erroneously reported from Hawaii as Cymatium vespaceum.