Phylum: Mollusca - Order: Littorinimorpha Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975

Family: Ovulidae J. Fleming, 1822

Xandarovula aperta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)

Otranto (Lecce, Italy) Ionious Sea Specie piuttosto comune a profondità considerevoli, in associazione a Corallo rosso (Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)) a circa 70-80m di profondità. Rather common species at considerable depths, in association with red coral (Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)) at about 70-80m of depth.
Living specimen Gallipoli (Lecce, Italy) Ionian Sea.
Bibliography Trono D., Macrì G. & Renda W. 2023. The latest but not the last: Checklist of the Molluscan fauna of the Salento coast (Apulia, Italy). Boll. Malacol., 59: 59-105 (1, 05/04/2023) https://doi.org/10.53559/Boll Malacol. 2022.19. Nappo A. 2024. An overview of the Mediterranean ‘Allied Cowries’ (GASTROPODA: OVULIDAE), with the description of XANDAROVULA AETHERIA N. SP. ReserchGate Volume 1 • Issue 1 • June 2024.

Otranto (Lecce, Italy) Ionious Sea

Specie piuttosto comune a profondità considerevoli, in associazione a Corallo rosso (Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)) a circa 70-80m di profondità.

Rather common species at considerable depths, in association with red coral (Corallium rubrum (Linnaeus, 1758)) at about 70-80m of depth.

Living specimen

Gallipoli (Lecce, Italy) Ionian Sea.

Bibliography

Trono D., Macrì G. & Renda W. 2023. The latest but not the last: Checklist of the Molluscan fauna of the Salento coast (Apulia, Italy). Boll. Malacol., 59: 59-105 (1, 05/04/2023) https://doi.org/10.53559/Boll Malacol. 2022.19.

Nappo A. 2024. An overview of the Mediterranean ‘Allied Cowries’ (GASTROPODA: OVULIDAE), with the description of XANDAROVULA AETHERIA N. SP. ReserchGate Volume 1 • Issue 1 • June 2024.

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