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]
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Scientific classification 
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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
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| Volvarina fauna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1846)
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Description
edit(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
editThis marine species occurs off Curaçao, Caribbean Sea.
References
edit- ^ Volvarina fauna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ^ Reeve, L. A. (1864-1865). Monograph of the genus Marginella. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 15, pls 1-27 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London
- 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.
External links
edit- Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Description of new species of Marginella. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1846: 95-97
- Weinkauff, H. C. (1865-1881). Die Gattungen Marginella und Erato. In: Küster, H. C.; Kobelt, W.; Weinkauff, H. C. (Eds) Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz, 2nd ed. (), 5(4): 1-166, pls. 1-26.