Heliacus fallaciosus (Tiberi, 1872)
N. Norway to Angola, Madeira to Mediterranean.
Circalittoral to continental shelf.
Original taxon: Solarium fallaciosum.
120-130m deep, west of Capraia island, NW. Italy. 18mm.
20 years before Tiberi, d’Orbigny had proposed the epithet “subvariegatum”; but this was a nomen nudum.
150-200m deep, off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 18mm.
180m deep, on muddy bottom, Cap Corse (Capicorsu), N. Corsica. 19mm.

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