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Updated 12/16/2012

Family Nassaridae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Nassarius papillosus

Ala Moana, Oahu, 50 feet, 45 mm

 

South Kona, Hawaii

Waikiki Aquarium

PIMPLED BASKET

Common in sand pockets or under dead coral deeper than 20 feet.  Animal white splashed with black.  Emerges to feed upon carrion at night.  Attains 2 inches, 52 mm.  East Africa to Okinawa, Hawaii, and the Marquesas.