Coripia corbis (Philippi, 1836)
North Sea to Mediterranean.
Original taxon : Cardita corbis.
Possible synonym: minuta Scacchi.
33m deep, in shell grit, Secche di Tor Paterno, off Torvajanica, Roma, Lazio, Italy. 3,5mm.
Same spot, 5mm. Most of the specimens collected on the Secche were pale and thin, and smaller, like the one pictured on top. This bright orange shell was unique.
19: Cardita corbis in R. A. Philippi: Enumeratio Molluscorum Siciliae tome I, 1836, plate IV, via BHL.
 
« Cardita – testa minuta, elongata, ovata, apicibus acutis; striis transversis densis undulatis, sulcis longitudinalibus obsoletis. […] Valvula dextra dentem cardinalem unicum, obliquum, compressum, sub apice subito terminatum; sinistra dentes duos, posticum compressum, elongatum, anticum sub ipso apice triangularem, rectum ostendit; cardo igitur omnino, ut in Cardita sulcata. Impressio muscularis postica subovata, antica oblonga, utraque magna. Margo pro magnitudine testae fortiter crenulatus. Color pallide fulvus, extus striis flexuosis, angulosis, rufis pictus. »

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