Chama gryphoides Linnaeus, 1758
N. Carolina to Caribbean, Galicia to Canarias, Azores to Mediterranean. Intertidal to deep circalittoral.
1m deep, on a rhizome of Posidonia, Giorgino beach, Cagliari, S. Sardinia. 13mm.
Synonyms: cavernosa, sessilis, unicornis.
30m deep, off Poetto, Cagliari. 15,5mm.
Calanque de Saména, south of Marseille, Provence, S. France. Original picture provided by S. Le Bris for iNaturalist.
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Another young one from Pánormos Bay, western coast of Skópelos Island, Northern Sporades. Original picture provided by M. Synatika for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC).
40m deep, off Almería, Andalucia, S. Spain. 11-12mm.
The species in Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique… Histoire naturelle des Vers — Atlas tome 2, Paris 1827.
Chama gryphoides in C. F. Schumacher: Essai d’un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés plate XII, fig. 4.
These white marginal spatulae are common in subadults. Anse de Tamaris, east of Sainte-Croix harbour, southern coast of the Nerthe (Estaque) mountain range, west of Marseille. Original picture provided by F. André for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC).
100m deep, Saronic Gulf, central Greece. 24,7mm.
Absence of radial microsculpture.
Same spot. 21,5mm.
Young specimen, Figuerolles area, southwest of La Ciotat, Provence. Original picture provided by P. Corbrion for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC-SA).
Shallow water, on shipwreck, Bastia harbour, NE. Corsica, 1965. 24mm. Collection E. Vial (FR).
50m deep, off Poetto, Cagliari, S. Sardinia. 33mm.
Paralia Antrines, Pánormos Bay, western coast of Skópelos Island, Northern Sporades, Central Aegean. Original picture provided by M. Synatika for iNaturalist – (CC BY-NC).

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