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Created 4/13/2026

Family Eulimidae

INDO-WEST PACIFIC / HAWAII

Parvioris inflexa



Kapoho, Hawaii, 3 feet, 9 mm

BENT EULIMID

Common in clusters under sea cucumbers in shallow water.  Shell straight or bent, solid, 9-10 barely convex whorls with irregular varices and an impressed suture, outer lip thin and projecting forward.  Attains 0.4 inch, 10 mm.  Mauritius to Hawaii and the Society Islands.  Formerly known as Balcis inflexa.