Predator in the infralittoral-circalittoral.
Synonyms: antiquata, santangeli.
Trawled off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 40-88mm.
Left: in L. A. Reeve: Conchologia iconica vol. II, London 1843, plate 3. Right: in W. Swainson: Zoological illustrations vol. I, London 1820-1821, plate 3.
Reeve: « Shell ovately fusiform, smooth, spire somewhat turreted; whorls very black round the lower part, white round the upper, covered with a yellow fulvous marbled epidermis; columella five-plaited. »
Swainson: « Mitre, with the epidermis marbled with brownish-yellow; volutions at their base black; columella five-plaited. This unique and beautiful Mitre has beeen already described by Captain Marryat in the Linnaean Transactions; the figures, however, are uncoloured, and give a very indifferent idea of the graceful symmetry of its form. My friend Dr. Leach, with his usual liberality, permitted me to draw the accompanying figure of it at the British Museum, where it is now deposited.
It appears to have been taken near Nice in the Mediterranean, adhering to a sounding-line, in very deep water… »
Reeve: « Shell ovately fusiform, smooth, spire somewhat turreted; whorls very black round the lower part, white round the upper, covered with a yellow fulvous marbled epidermis; columella five-plaited. »
Swainson: « Mitre, with the epidermis marbled with brownish-yellow; volutions at their base black; columella five-plaited. This unique and beautiful Mitre has beeen already described by Captain Marryat in the Linnaean Transactions; the figures, however, are uncoloured, and give a very indifferent idea of the graceful symmetry of its form. My friend Dr. Leach, with his usual liberality, permitted me to draw the accompanying figure of it at the British Museum, where it is now deposited.
It appears to have been taken near Nice in the Mediterranean, adhering to a sounding-line, in very deep water… »
