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Updated 8/26/2025

Family Triphoridae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Triphora tuberculata

Mokapu, Oahu

KNOBBY TRIPHORID

Common under dead coral at any depth, deep water shells more slender.  Three beaded spirals with deep suture, gray mottled with brown, posterior canal a semicircle, anterior canal closed, short & recurved.  Attains 10mm.  Endemic to Hawaii.