my-server
← Wiki

Volvarina southwicki

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.

Description

(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.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Bermuda.

References

  • 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

External links