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Updated 8/26/2025

Family Triphoridae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Metaxia brunnicephala 

Hapuna, Hawaii, beach drift

 

BROWN-TIP TRIPHORID

Uncommon at scuba depths.  Coiled to the right, conic, white with inflated whorls, protoconch of four brown whorls, four spiral keels, uppermost obsolete, strong axial threads dividing threads into tubercles, suture deeply impressed.  Attains 3mm.  Endemic to Hawaii.