| Euthria cornea (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Mediterranean and adjacent waters.
Predator on bivalves, and scavenger, in the infralittoral.
Original taxon: Murex corneus.
In nets, Napoli, W. Italy. 54mm. |
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Synonyms: aduncus, alba, conulus, gracilis, lignarius…
Animal yellow orange to orange red.
Cala d’Aiguafreda, Begur area, Girona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. Original picture provided by josepvilanova for iNaturalist.
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Young specimens can be very coloured.
Pointe Rouge, Marseille, Provence, S. France. Original picture provided by slebris for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC). |
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Females laying eggs at Cerbère harbour, Pyrénées-Orientales, S. France. Original picture provided by slebris for iNaturalist.
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| 1m, on rock, Baħar-iċ-Ċagħaq (Naxxa), N. Malta. 63mm. |
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| Found at 1-2m deep, among rocks along the eastern mole, Taşucu, Silifke, Mersin province, SE. Turkey. 63mm. |
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Fusus lignarius in H. M. D. de Blainville: “Malacozoaires ou Animaux Mollusques”, Faune française, Paris 1828-1830?, plate IV A.
« Shell thick, solid, oval, subturriculate; whorls 9, the two first ones completely smooth and mammilated, the following four being nodulose, the three last ones finely striated with growth lines, and depressed or subcanaliculate below the suture; aperture oval, with smooth margins, a rather short canal slighly upwardly incurved, and a well marked angular sinus at the junction of the two rims; colour whitish, irregularly veined outside with red or brown, violaceous or chocolate-red inside, and sometimes entirely brown, with a subsutural line articulated with brown and white. » |
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Above and below, specimens from deeper water.
35-40m deep, in Alger Bay, Wilaya of El Djazaïr, Algeria. 44mm. |
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| Variants crassa, crassilabra, elongata, polita, sordida, caprica, syracusana… 46-47mm. |
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| A pale pair from Jerba island, Tunisia. 45-46,5mm. |
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Dark specimen found at 3m deep, on muddy gravel, among Posidonia, shallow water, SE. end of Elounda bay, NW. coast of Kolpos Mirabellou, Lassithi, N. Crete. 35mm. This form seems restricted to some sheltered places in eastern Mediterranean. |
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| A special population lives on the eastern coast of Elounda peninsula. The shell is all grey, and small: this specimen is the largest of those I met here. 1m deep, on rock exposed to sun, northern shore of Kolokitha beach. 28,5mm. |
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| 4m deep, on rock, Kyriamadhi, south-east of Vernechodhi hill, north of Itanos, Palaikastro, east of Sitia, E. Crete. 28,5mm. |
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Above and below:
dark specimens from SW. Sardinia. 1m deep, on sand, Sant’Antioco island, Carbonia-Iglesias province. |
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| The dark colour is often found on specimens living in shallow lagunar systems. 41-46,5mm. |
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| Illa de Portlligat, Cadaqués, Girona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. 50-52mm. The shells were found in shallow water, in the channel between the islet and Caials peninsula. |
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| Banded specimen trawled at 30-50m deep, off Tarragona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. 52,4mm. |