Mitrella coccinea (Philippi, 1836)
Central Mediterranean, Adriatic, Aegean…
Predator in the circalitoral (A. Vazzana, 2010).
Original taxon: Buccinum linnaei var. “coccinea”: « unicolor, aut serie punctorum minutorum fuscorum prope suturam ornata » – R. A. Philippi: Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae vol. I, Berlin 1844, p.225. – Scilla, Calabria, SW. Italy. 12,5mm.
Juvenile of possible coccinea or bruggeni from 55m deep, Ognina, Catania, E Sicily. 4,5mm.

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