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Updated 10/19/2025

Family Cymatiidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL / HAWAII

Monoplex comptus



Oahu  (David Watts collection)


Ft. Kamehameha, Oahu, 3 feet, 20 mm



Waikiki, Oahu, 250 feet
   

DWARF TRITON

Rare in sand or rubble at any depth.  Shell lightweight, siphonal canal elongate, recurved, aperture white.  Attains 1.6 inches, 40 mm.  Hawaii, Indo-West Pacific, Tropical Western Atlantic.  Erroneously reported from Hawaii as Cymatium vespaceum.