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Updated 4/18/2026

Family Triphoridae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Triphora bicolor 

Makapu'u, Oahu, 8 feet, 6 mm

 

BICOLOR TRIPHORID

Common under rocks in shallow water.  Yellow-brown with middle spiral dark brown, anterior siphonal canal groove-like, short & recurved.  Attains 0.3 inches, 8 mm.  Endemic to Hawaii.