Worldwide warm oceans, western Mediterranean. Predator in circalittoral muddy sands and deeper (R. T. Abbott’s American seashells: 96-300fm along the eastern coast of the USA; 17-914m in Gracia & al., 2004). Original taxon: Dolium crosseanum. The differences with bairdii are obvious: different pattern, dark protoconch, dark lip… – Above and below: 100-120m deep, between Estepona and Gibraltar, S. Spain. 64,8mm.

« Colour of a reddish fawn, with broad whitish spots, irregularly arranged. […] Aperture nearly oval, slightly acuminate near the point of insertion, and whitish tawny inside. Peristome simple; margins united by a thin and inconspicuous callous deposit, except behind the columella, where it becomes a little thicker, and immediately around the point of insertion, where it forms like a tooth; columellar edge almost vertical, provided with many white folds; basal edge barely indented and purplish pink; outer margin strongly spreading, reflexed, slightly thickened, furnished, on the inside, with dentitions to the number of 33, and of a pink colouration, while, on the outside, it is brown and frequently marked with white on the place where the ribs arrive; several of the latter are frequently articulated in white and russet. » – T. A. di Monterosato: “Description d’un Dolium méditerranéen nouveau”, Journal de Conchyliologie vol. 17(3), Paris 1869, P.229.

« I dedicate this remarkable shell to M. Crosse, director of the Journal de Conchyliologie, who kindly helped me with his advice for the description of this species. » – Ibid.