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Updated 12/4/2025

Family Muricidae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Mancinella armigera

Kahe Pt., Oahu, 10 feet, 59 mm

 


Halona Blowhole, Oahu, 15 feet, 48 mm

Lanai Lookout, Oahu, 25 feet

 

 

 

Portlock, Oahu, 15 feet

 

 

 

Sea Cave, Oahu, 45 feet

 

 

Makapu'u, Oahu, 15 feet

 

ARMORED DRUPE

Locally common in crevices on hard reef exposed to surf.  Shell thick and heavily encrusted with coralline algae, aperture pale orange.  Attains 4.2 inches, 106 mm.  Red Sea to Hawaii and French Polynesia.  Formerly known as Thais armigera and Reishia armigera.