Granulina boucheti Gofas, 1992 |
Mediterranean. Predator in sheltered hard bottoms of the infralittoral down to 40-45m deep. Sympatric with G. marginata, the species seems to provide a weaker resistance to local environmental changes than the latter (Boyer & al., 2003). 3m deep, in shell grit, at the foot of the citadel, south of the jetty, Methóni, Messinia, Peloponnese, SW. Greece. 2mm. |
45m deep, Cannizzaro, Catania, E. Sicily. 2mm. |
Shell variable, suboval, with a somewhat rostrated summit; the aperture is rather narrow except in the anterior part, which is expanded. – Cerbère, Eastern Pyrenees, S. France. 1,8mm. |
Holotype MNHN-IM-2000-671 in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris (France). Original pictures provided by M. Caballer for the MNHN – (CC BY). 5m deep, Aci-Trezza, Aci Castello, Catania, E. Sicily. 2,1mm. |
Anse Bernardi, Port-Vendres, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania, S. France. 1,8mm. |
The epithet clandestina refers now to a Pliocene fossil. – Trio from intertidal shell grit, Buġibba, San Pawl il-Baħar, N. Malta. |
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