« A small, thin, white, oval, minutely striated shell, with the striae minutely imbricated. We cannot perceive the difference between this shell
and S. Minimus of Chenu, or the one named S. albus in the British museum. » – G. B. Sowerby: Thesaurus conchyliorum, London 1847,
via BHL.
150m deep, Capraia Isola, Archipelago Toscano, W. Italy. 15,5mm.
« Testa parva candida, subaurita, sulcato-pectinata, sulcis elevatis confertissimis spinosis ; margine interno
denticulato. » – O. G. Costa: Catalogo de’ testacei delle due Sicilie, Napoli 1829 (1830),
via BHL.
Named after Giovanni Gussone, botanist at Naples, Italy.
100-120m deep, off Alexandria, N. Egypt. 13,5mm.
« Vive sulle coste di Napoli, aderente alle roccie poliparie. Specie distintissima, ed in niun modo a confondersi cogli individui giovani del
Gaederopus. » – O. G. Costa: op. cit.
« …area cardinalis externa valvulae inferioris elongata… »