title: Gibbula leucophaea
text: # Gibbula leucophaea
  
  Gibbula leucophaea is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
  
  ## Description
  
  The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 7 mm. Compared with Gibbula adansonii, is the shell more solid, generally paler, and the base whitish. The spiral sculpture is stronger. The penultimate whorl has about 5 well-marked, separated spiral lirae. The body whorl is angulate at the periphery.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.
  
  