Volvarina sauliae

Volvarina sauliae is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.[1]

Volvarina sauliae
Shell of Volvarina sauliae (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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. sauliae
Binomial name
Volvarina sauliae
(G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
Synonyms
  • Gibberula jousseaumi Rochebrune, 1881
  • Gibberula rachmaninovi Kellner, 2003
  • Marginella jousseaumi (Rochebrune, 1882)
  • Marginella sauliae G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 (basionym)
  • Prunum sauliae (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)

Description

The length of the shell attains 7.3 mm.

The small, rather conical, smooth shell shows two reddish lines across the body whorl. The spire is very short, the aperture is long. The columella is four-plaited, the last plait subincrassate. The outer lip is smooth, scarcely raised from the body whorl at its reflected margin. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde and Mauritius

References
  1. Volvarina sauliae (Sowerby II, 1846). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2012.
  2. Sowerby, G. B. II. (1846). Monograph of the genus Marginella. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 1(7): 373–406, pl.74–78. London, privately published.
  • Moreno D. & Burnay L.P. (1999) The genus Volvarina (Gastropoda: Marginellidae) in the Cape Verde Islands. Journal of Conchology 36(5): 83-124.
  • Kellner L. (2003). A new species of Gibberula Swainson, 1849 (Cystiscidae) from Cape Verde Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Club Conchylia Informationen. 35 (1/6): 7-9
  • Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
  • Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp.
  • Moreno D. 2012. The genus Gibberula (Gastropoda, Cystiscidae) in the Cape Verde Islands with the description of a new species. Iberus, 30(1): 67–83.
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