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

Volvarina southwicki
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae
Subfamily: Marginellinae
Genus: Volvarina
Species:
V. southwicki
Binomial name
Volvarina southwicki
Boyer, 2015(C. A. Davis, 1904)
Synonyms[1]
  • Marginella avena var. southwicki (C. A. Davis, 1904) (original combination)
  • Marginella guttula Reeve, 1865
  • Volvaria avena var. southwicki C. A. Davis, 1904 (original combination)
  • Volvarina guttula (Reeve, 1865) ·

Description

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(Described as Marginella guttula) The shell is oblong-cylindrical, transparent and glassy. It is faintly three-banded with orange-brown. The spire is small. The outer lip is flexuous. The columellar region is four-plaited.

This is a bright, glassy shell, encircled with three very faint but well-defined bands of orange-brown.[2]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda.

References

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  • Davis, C. A. (1904). Notes on the Mollusca of the Bermuda Islands. The Nautilus. 17(11): 125–129, pl. 4.
  • Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp
  • Cossignani, T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp