Volvarina southwicki
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| Volvarina southwicki | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| 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) | |
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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]
(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]