Predator on small organisms, and scavenger, in the upper rocky infralittoral, among photophile algae or near and in harbours with many organic matter. The animal is black, except the underside of the foot, which is white.
Original taxon: Voluta striata.
3-5m deep, south-eastern cove of Punta di Spanu, north of Calvi, NW. Corsica. 17-20mm.
« Shell oval, subfusiform, apex acute. Whorls slightly convex, finely striated transversely. The last whorl alone is as long as the rest of the shell. Aperture elongated, quite narrow. Labrum sharp-edged, internally lined with plump-like guttules, which extend into the bottom of the mouth. Dentiform callosities at the top and bottom of the columella. Coloring composed of white spots on a brown background mixed with green. Aperture purple with a median white area. » – Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus: Les mollusques marins du Roussillon vol. I fasc. I, Paris 1882, p.26.
Specimens from Andalucia, S. Spain. Left: on rocks at low tide, Punta del Carnero, Getares, Algeciras. 20mm. – Middle and right: Faro de Calaburras, Mijas, Málaga. 15-17mm. Original pictures provided by A. Pina (ES) – (CC BY-NC-SA).
Specimens from Andalucia, S. Spain. Left: on rocks at low tide, Punta del Carnero, Getares, Algeciras. 20mm. – Middle and right: Faro de Calaburras, Mijas, Málaga. 15-17mm. Original pictures provided by A. Pina (ES) – (CC BY-NC-SA).
35-40m deep, Alger bay, Algeria. 19,5mm.
1-2m deep, on rocks, Tremiti islands, Foggia, N. Puglia, E. Italy. 22-22mm.
Cala Llarga, north of the Punta des Banc, Palafrugell, Girona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. Original picture provided by V. de Mazancourt for iNaturalist. – (CC BY-NC).
1m deep, on large rocks, Bali bay, Heraklion, Crete. 18,5mm.
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