. Turbonilla acuta
Turbonilla acuta (Donovan, 1804)
Skagerrak to Mediterranean and Black Sea.
Ectoparasit on Ectoprocta (Fretter & al., 1986) or on Polychaetes (Gofas, 2011) in the infralittoral-circalittoral.
 
Beachstormed, La Franqui, Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 3,8mm. Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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Protoconch of type A; whorls slightly convex, the two-three first ones smooth, the following ones adorned with very slightly opisthocline (almost orthocline) axial ribs, broader than their interspaces, and rapidly vanishing at the periphery of the last whorl; base smooth. – 5m deep, in grit, Náto beach, Salamina bay, Samalina island, Attikí, E. Greece. 4,7mm.
2-3m deep, in sediments among Posidonia meadows, Saint-Tropez, Var, Provence, S. France. 3,6-5,7mm.

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