Predator in the infralittoral and the circalittoral.
Original taxon: Utriculus minutissimus.
The shell can bear a very variable top, « with a spire ranging from protruding to sunken within an apical umbilicus » (Crocetta &
Tringali, 2015, after Oliveiro & Tringali, 2001). Monterosato notes: « apice
depresso » about Jeffrey’s Utriculus obtusus var. “minor”, from which he extracts the present species.
Beached, Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 1,2mm.
Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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