Synonyms: desmarestii, elata, lactoides, leucoma, lineolata, luteola. Above and below: 2-5m deep, in sand, Lozari bay, Isola Rossa, NW. Corsica. 18mm.
Young specimen from shallow sands at Le-Grau-du-Roi, Gard, South France. Size: 8mm. Close to Turton’s Lucina leucoma (cf. drawing):« Medium-sized shell, suborbicular; umbo slightly prominent, almost median; valves fairly domed; anterior part hardly higher and larger than the posterior one; lower margin well round; test shiny, adorned with thin concentric striae; colour of a pale light brown… » – A. Locard: “Les coquilles marines des côtes de France” Ann. Soc. linn. Lyon, n.s. vol. 37, 1890: Lucina leucoma Turton, 1822, p. 313.
1-2m deep, on sand and mud flats, off Grado, Friuli Venezia Giulia, NE. Italy. 19mm.
« Shell equivalve, subequilateral, rather thin, but rather solid and opaque. Form lenticular, rather bulging. Anterior edge a little excavated below the summits, then sloping; posterior border and ventral edge well rounded. Summits rather prominent, contiguous, curved towards the anterior side. Lunula rather deep, heart-shaped, limited by a furrow. Surface dull, decorated with concentric streaks and irregular lamellae, some of which, more developed, indicate successive periods of growth. In addition, with the help of the magnifying glass, there are very fine and numerous radiating striations… » – Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus: Les mollusques marins du Roussillon vol.II, fasc.25, Paris 1898, p.627-628.
Above: juvenile from detritic sand, Vignola Bay, Marina di Davia, Corbara, NW. Corsica. 3mm.
« Cardinal plate solid, sinuous. Hinge of the right valve composed of a small cardinal tooth, obtuse, triangular, of two obsolete lateral teeth and of an obliquely sunken posterior ligament fossa. Hinge of the left valve composed of a cardinal fossula accompanied on each side by a small obtuse tooth; lateral teeth and ligament fossa similar to those of the right valve. » – Ibid. Hinge in a specimen from SE. Greece.
