Volvarina evanida
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| image_caption = Drawing of a shell of Volvarina evanida (holotype)
| taxon = Volvarina evanida
| authority = (G.B. Sowerby II, 1846)
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- Marginella evanida G. B. Sowerby II, 1846 (original combination)
- Mesoginella evanida (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
- Sinuginella evanida (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
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Volvarina evanida, common name the alabaster marginella. is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.{{WRMS species|420175|Volvarina fauna (G.B. Sowerby I, 1846)||24 April 2010}}
Description
The small, white shell is elongate and has an oval shape. The spire is short. The outer lip is thick and incrassate. It is bent inwards so as to narrow the aperture. The last two of the four plaits on the columella are close together and tumid.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11076793 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],
Distribution
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References
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- Cossignani, T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp.
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