Auristomia erjaveciana (Brusina, 1869)
Algarve to Mediterranean, southern Black Sea…
Ectoparasit in the infralittoral.
Original taxon: Odostomia erjaveciana.
Protoconch of type C. Orthocline growth lines.
 
« I have the pleasure of giving this species the name of Professor F. Erjavec, who has made great progress in the Malacology of Croatia and Carniola. » – S. Brusina: “Gastéropodes nouveaux de l’Adriatique”, H. Crosse transl., Journal de Conchyliologie vol. 17, paris 1869, p.242.

In tide pool, La Franqui, Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 1,9mm.
Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR) – (CC BY-NC-SA).
The Odostomia nitens of Jeffreys (nowadays placed in Doliella) is not a synonym: it has « three whorls only (besides the nucleus) », while the true erjaveciana shows about five of them. Shallow water shell grit, Uvala Sabuša, southeastern shore of Molat island, Zadar archipelago, Croatia. 3,2mm.

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