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Created 12/18/2025

Family Cymatiidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Ranularia springsteeni


Balut Is., P.I., 600 feet, 63mm
   

SPRINGSTEEN'S TRITON

Rare in Hawaii and uncommon elsewhere, dredged, trapped, or in sediment deeper than 60 feet.  Yellow-brown with orange interspaces, white spiral on fourth cord below suture, brown cords on recurved siphonal canal, and pale orange aperture.  Long confused with the larger Ranularia gutturnia, which occupies the same habitat.  Attains 3.2 inches, 80mm.  Southern Red Sea to the Philippines, New Caledonia, and Hawaii.