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Updated 8/26/2025

Family Triphoridae

EAST INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Opimaphora coralina



Beach drift, Makapu'u, Oahu, 3 mm

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 0.2 inch, 4 mm.  Christmas Island (Indian Ocean) to Hawaii and the Line Islands.  Formerly known as Triphora coralina.