Gibberula miliaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Mediterranean to Canarias. Predator in the infralittoral. Original taxon: Voluta miliaria. « Testa obovata alba, spira oblitterata flaveola. » – Carl von Linné: Systema naturae vol. I p.730 in the 10th edition. The shell is slightly banded. – Above: young and adult specimens, collected in Posidonia meadow, Anse des Fossettes, at the root of the eastern peninsula, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, Alpes-Maritimes, SE. France. 6-6,4mm.
Synonyms: biplicata, quadriplicata, sexplicata, septemplicata!
30m deep, Punta de la Mona, east of La Herradura, Granada, Andalucia, S. Spain. 5mm.
Cap Ras, Llançà, Girona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. 5,2-5,8mm.
Conus siculus with animal inside, in S. delle Chiaje: Memorie sulla storia e notomia degli animali senza vertebre del regno di Napoli vol. plates, Napoli 1822, plate XLIX.
 
« Testa turbinata albo-lutescente glaberrima; maculis triangularibus fuscis ac rubentibus; spirae anfractibus 4-5; apertura lineari, apice ampliata; labro esteriori inferne vix intropresso, interiori superne 4 plicato. »
Playa La Rijana, Calahonda, east of Motril, Granada, Andalucia.
Original picture provided by V_S_ for iNaturalist.
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Heavy columellar folds. Lip smooth to finely crenulated. This specimen was found dead at 5m deep, on sand, at the eastern base of the citadel, near the breakwater that leads to the small venetian fortress offshore Methóni, Messinia, south-western Peloponnese, SW. Greece. 5,2mm.
Coloured subadult. Same spot. 3,8mm.
Shallow water, eastern end of the Canal du Rhône à Sète, Frontignan, Hérault, S. France. Original picture provided by P. Girard for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC).

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