18 Ancula gibbosa form A

18 Ancula gibbosa form A

Records with photographs of European A. gibbosa are extremely scarce further south than Brittany. The only photographs I have found of a Mediterranean specimen are of the one above from the wreck of the Paguro drilling platform at about 20 m depth, 22 km offshore from Ravenna in the northern Adriatic in June 2011.
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Images of this specimen also at www.biologiamarina.org/ancula-gibbosa/ and in Rinaldi (2017).