Limacina bulimoides (d’Orbigny, 1835)
Worldwide warm seas.
Swimming suspension feeder in the neritic zone.
Original taxon: Atlanta bulimoides.
This is the Limacina with the highest spire. The suture is less marked and the whorls less convex than in retroversa.
Above: dead shell found at 1000m deep, off Capo Teulada, SW. Cagliari, S. Sardinia. 1,5mm.
Specimen from Bermuda. Original picture provided by K. Santana Rodriguez for the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences – (CC BY-SA).

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