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Volvarina exilis
Shell of Volvarina exilis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Marginellidae
Genus:	Volvarina
Species:	V. exilis
Binomial name
Volvarina exilis (Gmelin, 1791)
Synonyms
Marginella exilis (Gmelin, 1791) Marginella fusca G. B. Sowerby II, 1846 Marginella rufescens Reeve, 1865 Marginella tribalteata Reeve, 1865 Marginella triticea Lamarck, 1822 Prunum exile (Gmelin, 1791) Voluta biannullata O. Fabricius, 1826 junior subjective synonym Voluta exilis Gmelin, 1791 (basionym) Volvarina fusca G.B. Sowerby II, 1846 Volvarina rufescens Reeve, 1865 Volvarina simeri Jousseaume, 1875 Volvarina tribalteata Reeve, 1865

Volvarina exilis, common name the three-belted marginella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm.

The shell is conically cylindrical, opaque-white and shining. It is encircled with three orange-brown bands. The spire is small. The whorls are rather swollen at the upper part and attenuated at the lower. The outer lip is moderately flexuous. The columella is four-plaited.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Morocco.

References

1. ^ Volvarina exilis(Gmelin, 1791). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 September 2010.
2. 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

• Fabricius, O. (1826). Fortsaettelse of nye zoologiske bidrag. 6. Nogle lidet bekjendte og tildeels nye Flad-Orme (Planariae). Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs naturvidenskabelige og mathematiske afhandlinger. Ser. 4(2): 16-35/ With three plates.
• 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

External links

• Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae
• Jousseaume F. (1875). Coquilles de la famille des marginelles. Monographie. Revue et Magazin de Zoologie. ser. 3, 3: 164-271; 429-435
• Sowerby, G. B. I. (1846). Description of new species of Marginella. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1846: 95-97

• Volvarina
• Gastropods described in 1791
• Taxa named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin