Chauvetia turritellata (Deshayes, 1835)
Algarve to W. Morocco, Azores to Mediterranean. Scavenger and predator in subtidal to at least upper circalittoral, often in coralligen. Original taxon: Fusus turritellatus.
80m deep, off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 5mm.
« Fusus turritellatus: testâ elongato-angustâ, turriculatâ, apice acutâ, fusco nigrescente longitudinaliter costatâ, transversim tenuè striatâ; anfractibus convexiusculis, ultimo brevissimo; aperturâ minimâ fuscâ; labro incrassato, intùs denticulato. » – G. P. Deshayes in Bory de St-Vincent: Expédition scientifique de Morée tome III, part. I, section I, Paris 1833 (1835), p.174, item 284.

Cap d’Agde, S. France. 5mm.
The species varies in colour. Same spot. 6,5mm.
Albino specimen collected at 45m deep, Cannizzaro, Catania, E. Sicily. 5mm.

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