Home > Invertebrates > Shells > Triphoridae > Opimaphora coralina

Updated 8/26/2025

Family Triphoridae

EAST INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Opimaphora coralina

North Shore, Oahu

Kewalo Hump, Oahu, 90 feet

CORALLINE TRIPHORID

Uncommon under dead coral in deep water.  Short & inflated, two equal rows of beaded spirals, with smaller row between on later whorls, white with irregular brown patches, posterior canal a shallow notch, anterior canal barely enclosed, short & recurved.  Attains 4mm.  Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Hawaii and the Line Islands.  Formerly known as Triphora coralina.