Alder, 1848

Description (shell):
Shell a tall narrow cone of up to 13 flat-sided whorls; profile slightly cyrtoconoid. Sutures very slight, paralleled internally and above by false sutures, latter often more conspicuous in live shells. Smooth, with very fine growth lines revealed by reflected light. Aperture narrow, drop-shaped, with outer lip arising tangential to last whorl between two brown spiral bands.

Size:
Up to 6 x 2 mm.

Colour:
Colourless, apart from two brown spiral bands peripherally.

Animal:
The animal is like Eulima glabra .

Habitat:
On soft substrata from 20-250 m (occasionally at LWST), associated with the ophiuroids Ophiactis and Ophiopholis but often found free.

Distribution:
Distributed from Mediterranean to northern Norway (Distr. E. bilineata).

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Mollusca
Class Gastropoda
Subclass Prosobranchia
Superorder Caenogastropoda
Order Neotaenioglossa
Suborder Ptenoglossa
Family Eulimidae
Genus Eulima
Species Eulima bilineata

Status in World Register of Marine Species

Accepted name: Eulima bilineata Alder, 1848

Scientific synonyms and common names

Eulima bilineata Alder, 1848
Turbo trifasciatus sensu auct. non Adams J., 1800
Eulima trifasciata
Strombiformis trifasciata
Strombiformis bilineata

Graham, Alastair F.R.S., 1988. Molluscs: Prosobranch and Pyramidellid Gastropods. Synopses of the British fauna (NS), 2: 1-662.

Hayward, P.J., Wigham, G.D. & N. Yonow, 1990. Mollusca I: Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, and Gastropoda. In: The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe. (ed. P.J. Hayward & J.S. Ryland). Clarendon Press, Oxford: 628-730.

Poppe, G.T. & Y. Goto, 1991. European Seashells. Vol. I. 352 pp. Wiesbaden/Verlag Christa Hemmen.

Seaward, D.R., 1990. Distribution of the marine molluscs of north west Europe. Nature Conservancy Council.

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