This species occurs worldwide including The Western Atlantic Ocean & New Zealand. The maximum recorded shell length is 180 mm. Hairy tritons are notable for having particularly long planktonic periods. The veliger larvae remain in the plankton for nearly 300 days, dispersing as far as 4000 km. This is the longest known larval duration and dispersal distance of any marine invertebrate which occurs along the west coast of North America.

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