Liostomia clavula (Lovén, 1846)
Scandinavia to West Africa, to Mediterranean. Ectoparasit of the Cnidarians of the genus Pennatula Linnaeus, which live burrowed in soft bottoms of the infralittoral-circalittoral.
Original taxon: Turbonilla clavula.
Broken shell (aperture absent) collected at 5m deep, in grit, at the base of the cliffs of Palaiokastro hill (mycenian settlement + tholos), Voidokilia beach, in the northwest of Navarino lagoon, Pylos area, NW. Messinia, W. Peloponnese, SW. Greece. 2,6mm.
Paralia Voidokilia: a shallow shelter for helmets, mactras, venus-clams and subadult specimens of the stingray Dasyatis pastinaca (Linnaeus, 1758). The Sea Pens (Pennatula sp.) live offshore. Palaiokastro hill is on the right side of the pass.
Turbonilla clavula in S. Lovén: “Malacologiska Notiser”, Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps-akademiens förhandlingar vol. III, Stockholm 1846, plate I fig.7 & 10. – « T. truncato-subulata, tenuis, nitidula, albida, apice obtusa; anfract. 5 convexis, rotundatis, glabris, sutura profunda; apertura 1/3 t. t.; columella subarcuata, recedens. Fig. 10. Animal vibraculis latis, brevibus, antice invicem coalitis, lamina superiore arcuato-producta versus apicem restricta, inferiore ampliore, producta, laetissime vibrante, lobo anguli magno; mento rotundato, bilobo. Fig. 7. Habitat in limo inter Pennatulas. »
10-25m deep, Kaštela Bay, Split, Dalmatia, S. Croatia. 1,1mm.
Original pictures provided by P. Ugarković (HR).
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