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Updated 5/12/2013

Family Ranellidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL / HAWAII

Monoplex mundus

Makapu'u tidepool, Oahu

 

Koke'e Beach tidepool, Oahu

CLEAR TRITON

Fairly common under stones in shallow water.  Exterior cream, aperture and columella white.  Attains 1.5 inch.  Hawaii, Indo-West Pacific, Tropical Western Atlantic.  Erroneously reported from Hawaii as the Western Pacific Cymatium gemmatum, which is darker and more elongate.