Home > Invertebrates > Shells > Eulimids > Scalenostoma subulata

Created 4/14/2026

Family Eulimidae

CIRCUMTROPICAL / HAWAII

Scalenostoma subulata



Mokapu, Oahu, 35 feet, 5 mm


Mokapu, Oahu, 35 feet, 7 mm

SMOOTH CORAL EULIMID

Uncommon within crevices of live coral.  Begins life as male, with a slender shell, becoming strongly inflated if sex changes to female.  Glassy inflated whorls lacking a pronounced keel on lower whorls.  Attains 0.5 inch, 13 mm.  Worldwide in warm seas, including Hawaii.  Formerly lumped within Scalenostoma carinatum; Stylifer deformis is a synonym.