(Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1882)
Scavenger in shallow water and on intertidal grounds.
Original taxon: Amycla corniculum var. “elongata”.
« Always smaller than the type, and more lengthened. This form seems to be the most variable in colouring (we found it includes some variants fasciolata, atrata, flavida, lineolata. » – Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus: Les mollusques marins du Roussillon vol. I, Paris 1882, p.57-58.
Above: lectotype MNHN-IM-2000-31803 from Roussillon area, in the B.D.D. collection at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, France. 13,1mm. Original pictures provided by M. Caballer for the MNHN – (CC BY).
Above: lectotype MNHN-IM-2000-31803 from Roussillon area, in the B.D.D. collection at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, France. 13,1mm. Original pictures provided by M. Caballer for the MNHN – (CC BY).
The species has been redescribed, after samples collected in the lagoon of Bizerte, by Aissaoui, Gallindo, Puillandre & Bouchet in “The nassariids from the Gulf of Gabès revisited”, Marine Biology Research vol. 13 (4), 2017, p.385-386.
Subadult specimen from Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 16mm. Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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« Protoconch paucispiral, of 1.5 whorls; teleoconch of 5 slightly convex whorls, suture shallow, weakly ledged; weak axial ribs on first 2 whorls, subsequent whorls smooth; no spiral sculpture except 3–4 spiral grooves at base of shell. Aperture ovate, outer lip weakly thickened and expanded, not forming a varix, bearing 9–10 rather strong teeth inside; columella convex, smooth, plicate; columellar callus smooth, marginated and narrow, bearing one indistinct anterior pustule and a weakly developed parietal denticle. Siphonal canal short, wide. Siphonal fasciole short and rounded. Background colour violet–grey with a light band on periphery of last whorl, and 12–15 spiral lines of alternating brown and white spots, […] suture bordered abapically by spirally elongated white blotches. Aperture violet–grey inside, with light band of periphery showing through, apertural rim lighter. »
Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque, Occitania, S. France. 12mm. Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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