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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

SuperOrder: CAENOGASTROPODA
  Order: NEOTAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: CERITHOIDEA Family: Cerithiidae

Page 3

 

 

 

 
  Family: Dialidae
  Family: Fossaridae
  Family: Modulidae
  Family: Obtortionidae
  Family: Planaxidae
  Family: Plesiotrochidae

 

Kay: 118
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 2

SuperOrder: CAENOGASTROPODA
  Order: NEOTAENIOGLOSSA
    SuperFamily: CERITHOIDEA
      Family: Cerithiidae
        Genus: Argyropeza
          Species: leucocephala (Watson, 1886)
        Genus: Bittium
          Species: impendens (Hedley, 1899)
          Species: parcum (Gould, 1861)
          Species: zebrum (Kiener, 1841)
        Genus: Cerithium
          Species: atromargginatum (Dauzenberg & Bouge, 1933)
          Species: boeticum (Pease, 1860)
          Species: columna (Sowerby, 1834)
          Species: echinatum (Houbrick, 1922)
          Species: egenum (Gould, 1849)
          Species: interstriatum (Sowerby, 1855)
          Species: matukense (Watson, 1886)
          Species: mutatum (Sowerby, 1834) =
Cerithium echinatum (Houbrick, 1992)
          Species: neseoticum (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1905)
          Species: placidum (Gould, 1861)
          Species: rostratum (Sowerby, 1855)
        Genus: Plesiotrochus
          Species: luteus (Gould, 1861)
        Genus: Rhinoclavis
          Species: articulata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
          Species: fasciata (Brugière, 1792)
          Species: sinensis (Gmelin, 1791)

Family: Cerithiidae
 


2-169.
7 mm.
?? Cerithium egenum

2-43.
3 mm.
?? Cerithiidae
? Bittium impendens

2-48.
6 mm.
??? Cerithiidae
Bittium zebrum

2-62.
14 mm.
Cerithium nesioticum

2-182.
17 mm.
Cerithium nesioticum

2-61.
15 mm.
Cerithium interstriatum

Rhinoclavis mutatum
#7
39 mm.

Cerithium columna
28 mm.

Cerithium columna
33 mm.

51 mm.
Rhinoclavis sinensis

58 mm.
?? Rhinoclavis sinensis

???
#8
38 mm.

47 mm.
#1
? Rhinoclavis fasciata

42 mm.
#2
? Rhinoclavis fasciata

27 mm.
#3
? Rhinoclavis fasciata

28 mm.
#4
? Rhinoclavis fasciata


38 mm.
#5
? Rhinoclavis fasciata

39 mm.
#6
?? Cerithiun matukense

50 mm.
?? Cerithium matukense
    

 

Kay: 118
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 2

SuperOrder: CAENOGASTROPODA
  Order: NEOTAENIOGLOSSA
    SuperFamily:
      Family: Dialidae
        Genus: Cerithidium
          Species: diplax (Watson, 1886)
          Species: perparvulum (Watson, 1886)
        Genus: Diala
          Species: flammea (Couturier, 1907) =
Diala albugo (Watson, 1886): Ponder & deKeyzer 1992
          Species: scopulorum (Watson, 1886)
          Species: varia (A. Adams, 1861)
diala semistriata (Philippi, 1849): Ponder & deKeyzer 1992
        Genus: Stylifera
          Species: goniochila (A. Adams, 1860)

Dialidae
#1

2-123.
2 -4 mm.
? Scaliola bella
#2

2-123A.
2-4 mm.
? Styliferina goniochila

#3

2-103.
3 mm.
?Finella pupoides


2-135.
? Cerithidium perparvulum
3 mm.

2-124.
5 - 8 mm
??Dialiidae scopulorum
  
 


 

 

 

Kay: 173
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 2

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SuperFamily:
    Family: Fossaridae
      Genus: Fossarus
        Species: cumingii (A. Adams, 1855)
        Species: garettii (Pease, 1868)
        Species: multicostatus (Pease, 1861)

Family: Fossaridae

2-138.
5 mm high 7 mm. diameter
Fossarus garretticumingii
    

2-140.
4 mm. diameter
?? Fossarus cumingii

2-218.
mm.
?? Fossarus cumingii

2-233.
2.5 mm.
?? Fossarus cumingii
     

 

Kay: 113
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 2

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SuperFamily:
    Family: Modulidae
      Genus: Modulus
        Species: tectum (Gmelin, 1791)

Modulidae

2-207.
6 mm. diameter
? Modulus tectum

2-208.
8 mm.
? Modulus tectum

28.
12 mm. diameter
7 mm high
? Modulus tectum

 

Kay: 114
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 2

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SuperFamily:
    Family: Obtortionidae
      Genus: Finella
        Species: pupoides (A. Adams, 1860) changed to
Family: Obtortionidae: Ponder
    Family: Scaliolidae
      Genus: Scaliola changed to scaliolidae: Ponder
        Species: bella (A. Adams, 1860)
        Species: glareosa (A. Adams, 1862)
        Species: gracilis (A. Adams, 1862)

 

Family: Obtortionidae
     
     
Family: Scaliolidae
     

 

Kay: 112
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 3

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SuperFamily: Cerithiacea
    Family: Planaxidae
      Genus: Planaxis
        Species: labiosa (A. Adams, 1853)
        Species: labsuturalisiosa (E.A. Smith, 1872)
         
         

Planaxidae


Trying to locate my shell that I know I have somewhere
mm.
?Planaxis labiosa
  

 

 

Kay: 112
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 3

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SuperFamily:
    Family: Plesiotrochidae
      Genus: Plesiotrochus
        Species: luteus (Gould, 1853)

Family: Plesiotrochidae


 

 

 

Unsorted & unidentified


2-36 & 2-36A
7 mm. 5 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-38.
7 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-33.
7 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-130.
6 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-105.
5 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-128.
7 mm .
??Bittium zebrum

2-46.
6 mm.
??Bittium zebrum


2-49.
7 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-45.
6 mm.

2-52.
4 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-53.
5 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-151.
6 mm .
??Bittium zebrum

2-50.
5 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-34.
7 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-63.
11 mm.
??Bittium zebrum



2-10.
5 mm
?? Cerithidae


2-1.
5-7 mm.
??Cerithiidae
 

2-143.
7 mm.
??Bittium zebrum

2-37.
10 mm.

2-43.
3 mm.
? Bittium impendens

2-121.
5 mm

2-122.
5 mm
Shell broke when attempting to remove stone!

2-181.
6 mm.

2-174.
6 mm.

2-159.
3 mm.
See 2-130



2-224.
11 mm.
??Worn out Cerithium nesioticum

2-48.
6 mm.
???

2-35.
6 mm.

2-42.
6 mm.


2-124.
5 - 8 mm
?? Cerithidae

2-154
4.1 - 2 mm .
?? Cerithiidae

2-110.
6 mm.
?? Immature Cerithiidae

 

 

 

 

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Kay: 101

Order: Mesogastropoda
  SuperFamily: Cerithiacea as in Kay's book (1979)
                           Vermetoidea now
I have been informed that vermetidae does not belong in cerithioidea but vermetoidea, and may belong in, of all places, the Ptenoglossa (the group also containing Eulimidae, Aclididae, Janthinidae & Epitoniidae)
    Family: Vermetidae
      Genus: Dendropoma
        Species: gregaria (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
        Species: meroclista (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
        Species: platypus (Morch, 1861)
        Species: psarocephala (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
        Species: rhyssoconcha (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
      Genus: Petaloconchus
        Species: keenae (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
      Genus: Serpulorbis
        Species: variabilis (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
      Genus: Vermetus
        Species: alii (Hadfield & Kay, 1972)
         

Vermetidae

#1


50 mm
Petaloconchus keenae

  

#2

90 mm
??
#3

104 mm
??

 

Kay: 109

SuperOrder: Neotaenogastropoda
    Family: Caecidae
      Genus: Caecum
        Species: arcuatum (deFolin, 1867)
        Species: sepimentum (deFolin, 1867)
        Species: vertebrale (Hedley, 1899)
        Species: (Brochina) sp.cf. glabella (deFolin, 1867)
        Species: (Fartulum) exile (deFolin, 1875)
        Species: (Micranellum) oahuense (Pilsbry, 1921)
      Genus: Meioceras
        Species: sandwichensis (deFolin, 1886)
      Genus: Strebloceras
        Species: arcuatum (deFolin, 1879)

 
No specimens in my collection
at this time
  

 

 

 

 

 

Kay: 125

Order: Mesogastropoda
  SuperFamily: Cerithiacea
    Family: Cerithopsidae
      Genus: Cerithopsis
        Species: agra (?)
      Genus: Joculator
        Species: granata (?)
        Species: ridiculata (Watson, 1886)
        Species: semipicta (Gould, 1861)
        Species: turrigera (Watson, 1886)


2-157.
1.5 mm.
Cerithiopsidae
??Joculator turrigera
   

 

 


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