Distribution and habitat. Bathyarca philippiana is distributed on both sides of the Atlantic (from the Gulf of Mexico to the Azores) and in the Mediterranean, also reaching the Levantine basin; it lives attached by byssus to stones, gravel and coral debris, from shelf edge to bathyal depths (Poppe & Goto 1993; Pons-Moyà & Pons 1999; Galil 2004; Oliver et al. 2016). It was regarded as a preferential / accompanying element in CB (deep-sea white corals) biocoenosis (Di Geronimo 1979 [a]; Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985). In the Santa Maria di Leuca CWC biotope, it was found on dead colonies of Madrepora oculata and hard substrates (Mastrototaro et al. 2010), being abundant in coral rubble, and common in solitary coral thanatofacies (Rosso et al. 2010). Fossil record. Pliocene and Pleistocene of Italy (Caprotti 1968; Di Geronimo 1979 [a]; Di Geronimo & Bellagamba 1985).
Sumber: Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy)