Volvarina fauna, common name the alabaster marginella. is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]

Volvarina fauna
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae
Subfamily: Marginellinae
Genus: Volvarina
Species:
V. fauna
Binomial name
Volvarina fauna
(G.B. Sowerby I, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Marginella alabaster Reeve, 1865
  • Marginella fauna G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 (original combination)
  • Marginella pellucida Weinkauff, 1879
  • Prunum alabaster (Reeve, 1865)

Description

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(Described as Marginella alabaster) The shell is cylindrically-ovate, shining-white and rather opaque. The spire is short. The whorls are convex. The outer lip is somewhat thicker, flexuous and incurved in the middle. The columella is four-plaited. [2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Curaçao, Caribbean Sea.

References

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  • Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.
  • Cossignani, T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp.
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