A specimen from western Cádiz, trawled in the gulf at 100-150m deep, on muddy bottom. Collected on nets in local harbour, Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, SW. Spain, november 2009. Only two specimens found in 10 years! Size: 54 mm.
Original picture provided B.J. Muñoz Sanchez (ES).

The african X. senegalensis Fischer, 1873. Smaller, with a more pronounced sculpture. See Le Loeuff, Intes & Marche-Marchad: Les Xenophora de l’Afrique de l’ouest, 1971.

« On several occasions we have received some copies of a species of the genus Xenophora, which have attracted our attention: these shells, which we have had with the dried animal still bearing its operculum, had always been fished on coralligenous bottoms around Bône (Algeria), and there can be no doubt about the exactitude of this habitat. […] it should be noted that the mollusk in question has so far only been encountered on the coasts of Algeria, in the southern part of the Mediterranean, and never on the more northerly points frequented by coralers. […] The shell figured on the plate belongs to the collection of Mr. Petit de la Saussaye. »