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Created 4/10/2026

Family Eulimidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Scalenostoma carinatum



Ewa, Oahu, 50 feet, 6 mm

KEELED CORAL EULIMID

Uncommon within crevices of Porites lobata coral.  Begins life as male, with a slender shell, becoming strongly inflated if sex changes to female.  Thin and glassy with a spiral keel on lower whorls.  Attains 0.5 inch, 13 mm.  Reunion to Japan, Hawaii, and French Polynesia.