Eulimella scillae Scacchi 1835

• Main Authors: Negri, Mauro Pietro, Corselli, Cesare
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• Published: Zenodo 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Littorinimorpha; Pyramidellidae; Eulimella; Eulimella scillae; Barents Sea; Iceland; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6082313; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C587A5FF8FF939FF3BF9156739FD0B

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. Pliocene and Pleistocene of Italy and Denmark; Holocene of Denmark (Monterosato 1872; Di Geronimo 1979a; Di Geronimo et al. 1982; Menesini & Ughi 1983; Di Geronimo & La Perna 1997; Petersen 2004; Høisaeter 2014). Published as part of Negri, Mauro Pietro & Corselli, Cesare, 2016, Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy), pp. 1-97 in Zootaxa 4186 (1) on pages 76-77, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1, ...