Parvicardium scriptum
(Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1892)
Algarve to Canarias, to W. Mediterranean, intertidal and immediately offshore.
Cap Ras, Llançà, Girona, Catalunya, NE. Spain. 5,5mm.
Original taxon: Cardium exiguum var. scripta.
Same spot. 4-5mm.
Young specimens from Port-Leucate, Occitania, S. France. 2,4-2,5mm.
A difference with vroomi is given by the tubercles: in scriptum they are more distant from each other than in vroomi, and they are shaped like thorns instead of scales.

Shallow water on sand, north of Costa Calma, Pájara, Fuerteventura, Canarias. 5,7-6,3mm.

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