Eulimella scillae Scacchi 1835

• Main Authors: Negri, Mauro Pietro, Corselli, Cesare
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Pyramidellidae; Eulimella; Eulimella scillae; Barents Sea; Greenland; Norway; Petersen; Palermo; Melania; Eusebio; Iceland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6082313; https://zenodo.org/record/6082313

Eulimella scillae (Scacchi, 1835) Fig. 17 h–j Melania scillae Scacchi, 1835 (p. 11, pl. 2, fig. 2). Odostomia scillae Scacchi—Jeffreys 1884 [b] (p. 361). Eulimella scillae Scacchi—Hidalgo 1917 (p. 317). Eulimella scillae (Scacchi, 1836) — Nordsieck 1972 (p. 119, pl. P IV, fig. 34); Fretter et al. 1986 (p. 624, figs. 434–435); Barash & Danin 1992 (p. 172). Eulimella scillae (Scacchi, 1835) — Cossignani et al. 1992 (fig. 202); Van Aartsen 1994 (p. 98, fig. 17); Petersen 2004 (p. 52, fig. 33); Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 228, bottom right fig.); Høisaeter 2014 (p. 59, figs. 99–100). Diagnostic characters . Turreted straight-sided shell; whorl face straight to very slightly convex with narrow subsutural shoulder; body whorl roundly angular at the periphery at transition to base; ovate-quadrangular aperture; outer surface with faint growth lines only. Protoconch: heterostrophic, globose/helicoid (type A sensu Van Aartsen 1987), transaxial; 1.7 whorls; diameter about 260 µm; surface smooth; transition to the teleoconch marked by a simple lip. Occurrence . Box-corer sample BC72 (1 specimen). Height: about 2.5 mm. Distribution and habitat . Eulimella scillae is distributed from northern Norway and Iceland to the Barents Sea and southward to the Caribbean, the Canaries, Cape Verde and the Mediterranean; it dwells on muddy sand, sand, clay, shell gravel or mixed bottoms from infralittoral to bathyal depths (Fretter et al. 1986; Poppe & Goto 1991; Barash & Danin 1992; Di Geronimo et al. 2001; Petersen 2004; Høisaeter 2009, 2014). Fossil record. 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