Alvania weinkauffi weinkauffi
Schwartz in Weinkauff, 1868
Alborán Sea to Algeria. Grazer and detritus feeder in infralittoral-circalittoral environments.
 
« Testa tenuis albida vel flavida, subpellucida, nitidiuscula, conico-oblonga; spira acuta; aufractus sex convexi, superne scalati, costulis longitudinalibus transversisque profunde clathrati, sutura incisa sejuncti, anfractus ultimus costulis 16-18 longitudinalibus rectis et continuis instructus; apertura ovata, labrum erectum subsinuatum varice striis transversis nonnulis ornato incrassatum, intus laevigatum. » – H. C. Weinkauff: Die Conchylien des Mittelymeeres vol. II, Cassel 1868, via BHL.

Above and below: 40m deep, off Tipaza, west of Alger. 3,3mm. Original pictures provided by A. Nappo (IT) – (CC BY-NC-SA).
The subsutural plate is less developed than in the subspecies jacobusi from central Mediterranean.

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