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Books and materials used:

  1. Hawaiian Marine Shells: Reef and Shore Fauna of Hawaii Section 4:
    Molluscs by E. Alison Kay 1979
  2. From Hawaiian Marine Molluscs -an update to Kay 1979
    compiled by Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay
    University of Hawai'i at Manoa June 1995

Hawaiian Shells from my Personal Collection
Class: Gastropoda

  Order: HETEROSTROPHA
    SuperFamily: VALVATOIDEA Family: Orbitestellidae

Page 16

 

 

 
    SuperFamily: ARCHITECTONICOIDEA Family: Architectonicidae
    SuperFamily: OMALOGYROIDEA  
    SuperFamily: RISSOELLOIDEA Family: Rissoellidae

 

Kay: 91
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: #9

Order: HETEROSTROPHA
  SuperFamily: VALVATOIDEA
    Family: Orbitestellidae
      Genus: Orbitestella
        Species: regiba (Kay, 1979) in Rissoeloidea: Ponder

Family: Orbitestellidae
 
     
     

Kay: 95
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: #9

Order: HETEROSTROPHA
  SuperFamily: ARCHITECTONICOIDEA
    Family: Architectonicidae
      Genus: architectonica
        Species: maxima (Philippi, 1849)
        Species: perspectiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
      Genus: Heliacus
        Species: implexis (Mighels, 1845)
        Species: mighelsi (Philippi, 1853)
        Species: sterkii (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1908)
        Species: trochoides (Deshayes, 1830)
        Species: variegatus (Gmelin, 1791)
      Genus: Philippa
        Species: oxytropis (A. Adams, 1855)
        Species: radiata (Röding, 1798)

Family: Architectonicidae
 

2-146.
6 mm . diameter; very flat
Architectonicidae
Heliacus sterkii

2-149.
4 mm.
diameter, flat
Architectonicidae
Heliacus implexus

2-150.
mm.
This architectonica has glued sand and oliveine to the top of its shell
Architectonicidae
Heliacus variegatus
   
2-147.
7 mm . diameter, quite domed
One specimen only
?? Heliacus implexus
    
     
     
     

 

Kay: 92
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: #9

Order: HETEROSTROPHA
  SuperFamily: OMALOGYROIDEA
    Family:
      Genus: Omalogyra
        Species: japonica (Habe, 1972)

SuperFamily: OMALOGYROIDEA
 
     
     

 

Kay: 93
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: #9

Order: HETEROSTROPHA
  SuperFamily: RISSOELLOIDEA
    Family: Rissoellidae
      Genus: Rissoella
        Species: sp. cf. confusa confusa (Ponder & Yoo, 1977)
        Species: longispira (Kay, 1979)

Family: Rissoellidae
 
     
     

 

 


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