Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy) Author Negri, Mauro Pietro Author Corselli, Cesare text Zootaxa 2016 4186 1 1 97 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1 5b97cddd-5284-4a6b-8693-898864fb4711 1175-5326 165288 029B675F-776C-4CD6-9992-FA05AEADFA7B Cadulus subfusiformis ( Sars M., 1865 ) Fig. 11 g Siphonodentalium subfusiforme Sars M., 1865 (p. 301). Cadulus subfusiformis M. Sars—Jeffreys 1883 [a] (p. 664). Cadulus subfusiformis (M. Sars) —Pilsbry & Sharp 1898 (p. 163, pl. 24, figs. 29, 31, 32). Gadila subfusiforme (M. Sars) — Di Geronimo et al. 2001 (pl. 1, fig. 14). Cadulus subfusiforme ( M. Sars, 1865 ) — Petersen 2004 (p. 60, fig. 43). Cadulus subfusiformis ( Sars M., 1865 ) — Repetto et al. 2005 (p. 359, mid right fig.). Diagnostic characters . Weakly curved, thin shell; moderate middle expansion; subequal apertures. Larval shell: not available. Remarks . Cadulus jeffreysi (Monterosato, 1875) differs in having a more inflated shell with apertures of different size. Occurrence . Cores BC21 (1 specimen), BC51 (1), BC52 (1). Maximum length: 1.5 mm . Distribution and habitat . Cadulus subfusiformis is distributed from the NE Atlantic (Scandinavia, including Norway fjords) to the Bay of Biscay and the western Mediterranean; it is a predator species living on muddy and clayey bottoms in the 80–1300 m depth range, regarded as characteristic of VP (bathyal mud) biocoenosis (Pilsbry & Sharp 1898; Di Geronimo & Li Gioi 1980 ; Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 ; Buhl-Mortensen & Høisaeter 1993 ; Petersen 2004 ). Fossil record. Miocene of Belgium; Pliocene of northern Italy; Pleistocene of Denmark ( Petersen 2004 ; Marquet 2006 ; Tabanelli 2008 ); in the Mediterranean, it was sometimes reported as restricted to Wurm period ( Di Geronimo & Li Gioi 1980 ; Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985 ).