Predator in the infralittoral and circalittoral, in twilight areas such as the rhizome layer in Posidonia meadows, or under stones and debris; it is also found in precoralligenous and coralligenous environments. Prey of Astropecten aurantiacus.
Original taxon: Murex scalaroides.
50-80m deep, off Almería, Andalucia, S. Spain. 7-11,5mm.
« Shell oval, a little elongated, subturriculate, almost smooth, composed of six to seven rounded whorls, a little bulging, staggered, very distinct, slightly striated in their decurrence, and traversed by thick beads in rather small numbers and quite smooth; aperture oval, rounded posteriorly, and provided in front of a short, open, slightly oblique and sub-buccal canal; color of a slightly translucent white, more opaque on the beads. »
100m deep, off Bozcaada island, Çanakkale, west Marmara province,W. Turkey, north Ægean. 10,5mm.
The shell is covered with a white calcareous crust; under this layer, it is more or less yellow.
