(Ponzi, de Rayneval & van den Heck, 1854)
Norway to Cabo Verde, Azores to central Mediterranean. The species is ectoparasite in the infralittoral and the circalittoral, on many sea-urchins: Arbacia lixula (Linnaeus, 1758), Centrostephanus longispinus (Philippi, 1845), Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816), Psammechinus microtuberculatus (Blainville, 1825), Sphaerechinus granularis (Lamarck, 1816)…
Original taxon: Eulima philippi. Synonym: franquiae.
La Franqui, Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 2,2mm.
Original pictures provided by S. Clanzig (FR).
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Specimen from Laredo, Cantabria, N. Spain. 2mm.
« The Description and Figure of Philippi, vol.I, p.158, and II, p.135, tav.ix, fig.6, relating perfectly to our fossil, we propose to give it the name of E. Philippi » – Ponzi, de Rayneval & van den Heck: Catalogue des fossiles du Monte Mario (près Rome), recueillis par M. le Cte de Rayneval, Mgr Vanden Hecke et M. le professeur Ponzi, Versailles 1854, p.17. – Nota bene that the correct spelling of the species-name should have been “philippii” with two “i’s” for the genitive. – 4m deep, Cala d’Alivu, Isola Rossa, NW. Corsica. 3,5-3,75mm.
Original picture provided by A. Bertrand (FR).
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in “Eulimidae Mediterranee”,
Documenti del Gruppo Malacologico Livornese, 2001:
Genus Vitreolina Monterosato: « La falsa sutura devia verso il basso prima della cicatrice, presentando un avvallamento, per curvare di nuovo verso l’alto dopo la cicatrice » (left detail). « Conchiglia larvale conica con angolo apicale maggiore di quello della teloconca » (right detail). – Species philippi: « Margine esterno del labbro proiettato fuori del giro », markedly, like in Nanobalcis nana (Monterosato, 1878).
85m deep, Saronic Gulf, Attikí, E. Greece. 2mm.
