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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
Subclass: Prosobranchia

   
  • SubOrder: PTENOGLOSSA
      SuperFamily: JANTHINOIDEA Family: Epitonniidae
Family: Janthinidae

Page 14

 

 

Kay: 151
Moretzsohn & Kay:
Page #7 & #8

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SubOrder: Ptenoglossa
  SuperFamily: Epitonacea
    Family: Epitoniidae
    SubFamily: Metaxiinae
      Genus: Amaea
        Species: xenicima (Melville & Standen, 1903)
      Genus: Asperiscala
        Species: goldsmithi (DuShane, 1988))
      Genus: Cirostrema
        Species: varicosa (Lamarck, 1822)
      Genus: Cycloscala
        Species: crenulata (Pease, 1867)
      Genus: Epitomium
        Species: oahuense (Pilsbry, 1921)=
Drepessiscala umbilicata (Pease, 1869)
        Species: (Labrascala) millecostatum (Pease, 1861)
        Species: alatum (Sowerby, 1844)
        Species: fucatum (Pease, 1861)
        Species: hemmesi (DuShane, 1988)
        Species: hyalina mokuoloense (Pilsbry, 1921)=
Cycloscala hyalina (Sowerby, 1844)
        Species: kanemoe (Pilsbry, 1921)
        Species: liliputanum (A. Adams, 1861)
        Species: oahuense (Pilsbry, 1921)
        Species: paumotensis (Pease, 1868)
        Species: perlpexum (Deshayes, 1863)
        Species: replicatum (Sowerby, 1844)
        Species: revolutum (Hedley, 1899)=
Cycloscala hyalina (Sowerby, 1844)
        Species: thorssoni (DuShane, 1988)
        Species: ulu (Pilsbry, 1921)
        Species: umbilicatumlu (Pease, 1869)
      Genus: Laeviscala
        Species: luceo (DuShane, 1988)
      Genus: Opalia
        Species: (Nodiscala) attenuata (Pease, 1861)
        Species: bicarnata (Sowerby, 1844)
        Species: (Opalia) burchorum (DuShane, 1988)
      Genus: Parviscala
        Species: cf. gloriola (Melville & Standen, 1903)
        Species: crispata (Pease, 1867)
        Species: deifica (Melville & Standen, 1903)
        Species: gradiscala (Jousseaume, 1912)
        Species: paumotensis (Pease, 1867)
        Species: symmetricata (Pease, 1867)
         

Family: Epitoniidae

2-163.
10 x diameter 5 mm.
Epitoniidae
Epitomium perplexum

2-67.
20 mm. diamter 10 mm.
Epitoniidae
Epitomium perplexum

2-30.
13 mm diamter 6.5
Epitoniidae
Epitomium perplexum

2-162.
23 1mm x diamter 11 mm .
Epitoniidae
Epitomium perplexum

2-66.
5 mm. diameter 2 mm.
?? Epitomium perplexum
 

2-64.
8 mm. x diamter 4 mm.
Epitoniidae
??Epitomium factum

2-28.
10 mm. diameter 5 mm.
I have several of these ranging from 8-20 mm
Epitoniidae
??Epitomium factum
 
  
2-65A
& 10 mm. x diamter3 mm.
Epitoniidae
Epitomium kanemoe
  
2-65B
13 mm. x diamter 4 mm
Epitoniidae
Epitomium kanemoe
Protoconch broken off

2-29.
12 mm. diameter 2.5 mm
Epitoniidae
Epitomium kanemoe

2-156.
2 mm .
Epitoniidae
Opalia attenuata


2-145.
5 mm.
Epitoniidae
??? Opalia ulu juvenile
 
     
 

??Epitomium factum
 
     
     

 

Kay 157
Moretzsohn & Kay: Page #8

Order: Neotaenioglossa
  SubOrder: Ptenoglossa
  SuperFamily: Janthinodea
    Family: Janthinidae
      Genus: Janthina
        Species: exigua (Lamarck, 1816)
        Species: globosa (Swainson, 1822)
        Species: janthina (Linnaeus, 1758))
        Species: ordinata (Laseron, 1958)
        Species: peleae (Baker & Spicer, 1935)
        Species: perfecta (Pease, 1871)

Family: Janthinidae

39.
5 - 22 mm.
Light purple on apexview / Dark purple on dorsal view

40.
5- 15 mm.
Same purple all around More conical
 
     
     
     

 


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