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Updated 12/27/2025

Family Eulimidae

Parasitic Snails

Eulimids are white or semi-transparent snails that derive nutrition by siphoning body fluids from various echinoderms.  Many are difficult to identify without careful examination.

 

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Melanella bryani 

BRYAN'S EULIMID

 

 
   
   

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Melanella aciculata

NEEDLE-LIKE EULIMID

 

 Melanella cumingii

CUMING'S EULIMID

Melanella major

THAANUM'S EULIMID

 

 Thyca crystallina

LINCKIA CAP SHELL

 
Stilifer linckiae

LINCKIA SNAIL, lower