Gibberula caelata (Monterosato, 1877)
Algarve to Sicily. Predator in the infralittoral.
Original taxon: Marginella caelata.
 
The species is « light yellowish-white with a very broad, vague red-brown band and orange-brown apical whorls. There are five or six teeth on the columella and the outer lip is finely denticulate within, the denticulation becoming coarser abapically. » – Van Aartsen & al.: “Marine Mollusca from Algeciras”, Basteria supplement, vol. 2, 1984, p.83. The species is the most stocky of the mediterranean members of the genus Gibberula. The species miliaria Linné can be distinguished from caelata by its more marked labial teeth, and by its less triangular, more cylindrical shape – Unusually pale specimen collected at 1m deep, Tarragona, Andalucia, S. Spain. 4mm. On this picture, one can glimpse the numerous weak labial teeth of caelata, and the three first columellar folds.
Subfossil. 55m deep, Ognina area, Catania, E. Sicilia. 4mm.
45m deep, Cannizzaro, Catania. 4,4mm.

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