[2] It is found along the rocky shore all year long but I have noticed them in great numbers and spread across rock flats during the winter season when surf is high and the spray keeps the shoreline wet farther back than during the summer months.

Pūpū kōlea litter the rocky flats in such great numbers that they may have resembled kūkae or excrement.

Their name may stem from the appearance of kōlea at the same time of year, documenting this natural occurrence.

Pregnant women were discouraged from eating pipipi lest their children be born with small eyes (makapipipi) (Pukui and Elbert 1957).

; also called kolealea, ki:tkae-kolea, kolea, pipipi-kolea, pupukolea (Pukui and Elbert 1957; Figures lOF, G).

These littorines are abundant with Nodilittoring pieta in the supratidal region along all rocky shores from Midway to Hawaii.

The veligers hatch from the egg capsules about four days after spawning and have a long planktonic life (Struhsaker, 1966).