Hello all,

since several years I am puzzled with three shells my aunt collected in the
Belgian Congo some 46 years ago. Though she swears she collected them near
Matadi, which is a bit upstream from the Congo river estuary, they look like
Terebrids to me. The most similar species I found in the Compendium (and the
internet) is Hastula cinerea (Born, 1778) from the Western Atlantic. So this
is my question: is there a subspecies or a close relative of H. cinerea on
the eastern side of the Atlantic, and do Trebrids possibly live in brackish
waters?
Many thanks in advance
Michael


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