Original taxon: Bulla cylindracea.
15m deep, Kaštela Bay, Split, Dalmatia, S. Croatia. 9,5mm.
Original pictures provided by P. Ugarković (HR).
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« Shell solid, white, smooth, striated with numerous fine spiral lines that can be detected under magnification; epidermis yellow-brown; shape: narrow cylindrical, three time longer than large, truncate at both extremities, of a constant diameter; top of the shell slanted and slightly concave, wrapped in a heavy white crest. Aperture quite narrow on its adapical and median portions, abruptly enlarging in its inferior part; labial margin slightly arched; inferior summit barely prominent; short obliquely receding columellar fold. »
« Bulla with a slender, cylindric, smooth, glossy, white shell; aperture the whole length, very narrow, a little dilated at the base. No external volution, but in its place a deep umbilicus. Outer lip thin, acute, straight. Inner lip thickened, opaque white. Columella a little indented. » – G. Montagu: Testacea britttanica vol. I, London 1803, p.221.
30m deep, in mud, Corigliano gulf, Calabria, S. Italy. 1,6-2mm.
Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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