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Updated 1/19/2026

Family Triphoridae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Euthymella flammulata

Ewa, Oahu, 50 feet, 16.8 mm

 

He'eia, Oahu , 4 feet

 
   

FLAME TRIPHORID

Common under dead coral at any depth.  Conic-elongate, three spiral keels, upper & lower larger  and shelf-like, middle thread small, lower thread sometimes beaded, white with axially-oriented splashes of brown.  Attains 0.7 inch, 17 mm.  Endemic to Hawaii.  Formerly known as Viriola flammulata.