Clelandella miliaris (Brocchi, 1814)
Iceland and Norway to Mauritiana and Canarias, Seine seamount to Mediterranean. Grazer and deposit feeder on bottoms of stones, gravel or shell debris, from the middle infralittoral and the circalittoral levels, down to shelf depths (cold water coral habitats). Sharp decline of the population in the Skagerrak-Kattegat area (HELCOM Red List).

Original taxon: Trochus miliaris.100-150m deep, Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 9mm.
Synonym: millegranus.
Same area, 80-150m deep. 9,5-10mm.
« Zizyphinus millegranus. Shell rather sharply conical, slightly tumid at the base, yellowish white, sparsely dotted and articulated with purple-rose, whorls flatly sloping, obliquely reticulately fretted throughout, lower margin of the whorls crenately corded. » – L. A. Reeve: Conchologia iconica vol. XIV, London 1864, via BHL.

White specimens trawled off Le Conquet, NW. Finistère, W. Brittany, NW. France. 7,5-8mm.
Specimens trawled at 80-150m deep, off Estepona, Málaga.
11-11,8mm. Original pictures provided by J. M. Martin (ES).
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