| Comarmondia gracilis (Montagu, 1803) |
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| British Isles to Canarias, Azores to Mediterranean. On muddy bottoms of lower half of infralittoral and circalittoral. Predator. Original taxon: Murex gracilis. Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 26mm. |
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| Synonyms: emarginatus, oblongus, suturalis. Off Marseille, Provence, S. France. 18mm. |
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| Rarely fished along west Africa. 80m deep, off southern coast of La Palma, Canarias. 14,5mm. |
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| Mangelia gracilis in Forbes & Hanley: A history of British Mollusca and their shells London 1853. Animal plate R.R. vol. I, and shell plate CXIV vol. IV. « Large, brown, with a white filllet upon the body-whorl, with fine spiral grooves, and about twelve rounded longitudinal ribs. Spire scarcely longer than the mouth; outer lip acute
at the edge, with a deep sinus. » – F. & H.: op. cit. vol. III p.473. |
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