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Updated 12/2/2025

Family Muricidae

CENTRAL PACIFIC / HAWAII

Morula fuscoimbricata

Kahe Pt., Oahu, 15 feet, 16 mm

 

Mokapu, Oahu, 2 feet, 18 mm

 


Ft. Kamehameha, Oahu, 3 feet, 18 mm

 


Subfossil, Sand Is., Oahu, 26 mm
   

BROWN-SCALED DRUPE

Rare under rocks at any depth where it preys upon bivalves.  Shell biconical with a brown aperture, and often encrusted with coralline algae.  Attains 1.1 inch, 26 mm.  Hawaii and the Marshall Islands.  Erroneously reported from Hawaii as Morula spinosa.