Granulina torosa Gofas, 1992
Strait of Gibraltar.
Predator in the low infralittoral, the circalittoral and deeper.
 
The shell of this species is characterized by its two profile breaks, « one on the ⅔ posterior, the other at the ¼ anterior. » – S. Gofas: “Le genre Granulina (Marginellidae) en Méditerranée et dans l’Atlantique oriental”, Bollettino Malacologico vol. 28(1), Milano 1992, p.18.
 
Granulina boucheti has less rostrated extremities. The labial teeth of torosa can be rather strong, but specimens devoid of denticles do exist, such as this one pictured above, dredged at 300m deep in the Strait. 2,2mm.

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