Eulimella scillae
Habitat: it lives in the infralittoral and circalittoral zones, in a detrital-muddy habitat. Distribution: it can be found all over the Mediterranean. Never common, collected at Secche di Vada (Leghorn - Tuscany - Italy), at 45 m depth.
Notes: shell solid, white milk in colour, particularly conic in outline, periphery very angulated. Sizes larger than its similar ones and, on surface, it is visible a really thin spiral streaking less evident than in E. acicula. Whorls are definitely flat-sided, suture incised and evident. Protoconch type A with two whorls of spiral. Aperture subquadrangular in form, slightly bell-shaped at the base, columella almost straight. Growth lines opisthocline and a little bit flexuous. Shell solidity, its conical aspect and angulated base make this species easily recognizable also at the immature stage. Eulimella pyramidata (Deshayes, 1835) is considered as a synonym of this species. Average measures of adult specimens are around 7-8 mm in height.