| Lutraria oblonga (Gmelin, 1791) |
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Southern Irish Sea, Channel Islands to Sénégal, Mediterranean. Also in the Red Sea (P. Vine: Red Sea Invertebrates, London 1986). Burrowed in muddy sand from lower intertidal down to at least 50m deep. Original taxon: Chama oblonga. Synonym: magna da Costa. 50-80m deep, off Málaga, Andalucia, S. Spain. 98mm. |
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| Subadult from Málaga. 50mm. |
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| Lutraria oblonga in plate XIII of Forbes & Hanley: A history of British Mollusca and their shells vol. 4, London 1853, via BHL. |
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| Lutraria oblonga in J. G. Hidalgo: Moluscos marinos de España, Portugal y las Baleares plate VI, Madrid 1870, via BHL. |
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| Lutraria oblonga in G. P. Deshayes: “Hist. Nat. Mollusques t. I”, Exploration scientifique de l’Algérie, Paris 1844-1867, via BHL. The siphons are of a deep purple-red at their extremities, which diverge almost at right angles. |
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| Conform to the drawing displayed supra, this specimen is laying on the foreshore after a violent storm at Siracusa, SE. Sicily. Original picture provided by A. Brancato (IT). – (CC BY-NC-SA) – |
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