Aissaoui, Barco & Oliverio, 2017
Predator in the infralittoral and the circalittoral.
Close to aciculata and corallinoides but less slender in shape, and with a less domed protoconch. Above and below: dead immature specimen from 8m deep, in grit, Bozcaada island, Çanakkale, W. Marmara, NW. Turkey. 5,7mm.
« Diagnosis: shell of medium size, fusiform, not slender; protoconch paucispiral, slender. Teleoconch sculpture with equally sized primary and secondary cords. » – Barco & al.: “Revision of the Ocinebrina aciculata species complex (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea”, Journal of Molluscan Studies vol.84(1), London 2018, p.9.
A specimen from the type locality: 80m deep, in octopus traps on muddy gravel, Órmos Eleftherón, off Néa Péramos, south of Kavala, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, N. Aegean. 9,5mm.
Protoconch paucispiral. The differences with the other members of the aciculata complex are mostly genetic… and also geographic: corallinoides is restricted to the Gulf of Gabès in Tunisia, and the atlantic aciculata is only present in Alborán Sea. – Stocky specimen from the same spot. 9,3mm.
