Granulina minusculina (Locard, 1897)
Western Sahara to Alborán Sea, southern Tyrrheanian and Messina Strait (Boyer & al., 2017).
Predator in the circalittoral and deeper (170-1285m in Gofas, see infra). Basionym: Volutella minusculina.
 
The curve is a little more rounded than in torosa, and the labial denticles are smaller. Also, they extend a little on the outer surface of the labrum. See S. Gofas: “Le genre Granulina (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée et dans l’Atlantique oriental”, Bollettino Malacologico vol. 28(1), Milano 1992, p.16.

Granulina boucheti has less rostrated extremities.
300m deep, in the Strait of Gibraltar. 2,3mm.

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