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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: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
    SuperFamily: VANIKORIODEA
 Family: Hipponnicidae
Family: Vanikoridae

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    SuperFamily:
CALYPTRAEOIDEA		 Family: Calyptraeidae
Family: Capulidae
    SuperFamily:
XENOPHOROIDEA 		Family: Xenophoroidae
    SuperFamily: VERMETOIDEA
 Family: Vermetidae


Kay: 176
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: Vanikorioidea
    Family: Hipponicidae
      Genus: Hipponis
        Species: (Antisabia) foliaceus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1835)=
Antisabia foliacea
        Species: (Cochlear) imbricatus (Gould, 1846)
        Species: (Pilosabia) pilosus (Deshayes, 1832)
      Genus: Sabia
        Species: conica (Schumacher, 1817)=
   Hipponix austrlais (Lamarck, 1819)

Family: Hipponicidae
 


Hipponsis pilosus
20 mm., 18 mm., 15 mm.



Hipponsis foliaceus
17 mm.

Sabia conica
13 mm.


Hipponix imbricatus
16 mm.

Hipponix imbricatus
16 mm.

 

 

Kay: 175
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: VANIKOROIDEA
    Family: Vanikoridae
      Genus: Vanicoro
        Species: acuata (Recluz, 1844)
        Species: cancellata (Lamarck, 1822)
        Species: imbricata (Pease, 1861)

Family: Vanikoridae
     
     

 

Kay: 181
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: CALYPTRAEOIDEA
    Family: Calyptraeidae
      Genus: Cheilea
        Species: equestrius (Linnaeus, 1758)
      Genus: Crepidula
        Species: aculeata (Gemlin, 1791)
      Genus: Crucibulum
        Species: spinosum (Sowerby, 1824)

Family: Calyptraeidae
 

Cheilea equestris
22 mm. & 30 mm.

Crepidula aculeata-1
22 mm. & 28 mm.
B
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
             

 

Kay: 182
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: CALYPTRAEOIDEA
    Family: Capulidae
      Genus: Capulus
        Species: bicarinatus (Pease, 1861)

Family: Capulidae
     

   

 

Kay: 183
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: XENOPHOROIDEA
    Family: Xenophoroidae
      Genus: Xenophora
        Species: peroniana (Iredale, 1929)=
Exenophora (xenpohora) peronia (Wilson, 1993)
        Species: (Xenophora) peroniana kondoi (Ponder, 1983)

Family: Xenophoroidea
 
 
No specimens in my collection at this time
  

 

Kay: 101
Fabio Moretzsohn and E. Alison Kay: 4

Order: NEOTAENAENIOGLOSSA
  SuperFamily: VERMETOIDEA
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.
Vermetis_alii
Quite broken up

#2
90 mm.
??


#3
104 mm.
??


#4
Vermetis_alii
40 mm.


#5a
Serpulorbis variabilis
20 mm.



#5a
Serpulorbis variabilis
20 mm.


#5b
Serpulorbis variabilis
20 mm.

#6
?? Petaloconchus keenae
14 mm.
  

#7
Vermetis_alii
30 - 40 mm.

#8
?? Petaloconchus keenae
14 mm.

 

 


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