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Created 12/26/2025

Family Cymatiidae

WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Ranularia gutturnia


Talibon, Bohol, P.I., 75 feet, 72.6mm
   

ORANGE-MOUTHED TRITON

Rare in Hawaii deeper than 100 feet, but uncommon elsewhere at shallower depths, in sandy mud, rubble or under rocks.  Cream, sometimes with brown streaks, unmarked siphonal canal, and dark reddish-orange or pink aperture.  Larger than, and long confused with Ranularia springsteeni.  Attains 4 inches, 100mm.  Philippines to Japan, Fiji, and Hawaii.  Formerly known as Cymatium gutturnium.