Predator in the circalittoral, down to bathyal depths.
Original taxon: Marginella occulta. Synonym: parvulina.
500m deep, Alborán island. 2,8mm.
« Testa minima, ovato-oblonga, piriformis, translucida, laevigata, glauca, plusminusve albescens; spira occulta, deposito mamelliformi obtecta; apertura linearis, angusta, columella arcuata, inferne quadriplicata, plicis regulariter crescentibus; sinus basalis distinctus; labrum subincrassatum, intus labiatum, denticulis parvis munitum. » – H. C. Weinkauff: “Die Gattungen Cypraea und Ovula”, Sytematisches Conchylien-Cabinet Bd.5:Abt.4, Nürnberg 1881, p.124. – Above: Volutella parvulina Locard, collected at 2115m deep, off Agadir, W. Morocco, june 1883. Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris (France). Original pictures provided by M. Caballer for the MNHN – (CC BY).
« Testa minuta, elongato-ovata vel ovato-oblonga, pellucida, laevigata, griseo-margaritacea; spira mamillata, involuta. Apertura angusta, elongata, labro intus reflexo, haud denticulato; columella distincte qaadriplicata. » – W. Kobelt: Iconographie der schalentragenden europäischen Meeresconchylien vol. II, Wiesbaden 1901, p.62.
Lectotype MNHN-IM-2000-609 in the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle de Paris (France). Original pictures provided by M. Caballer for the MNHN – (CC BY).
Palermo, NW. Sicilia. 2,45mm.