California marginella

Volvarina taeniolata

Classification

Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Marginellidae

Volvarina taeniolata 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, its diameter 4 mm. (Described as Volvarina californica parallela) The shell resembles the Californian race of the Marginella species but is uniformly smaller.

Distribution

California marginella — (c) Cricket Raspet, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Cricket Raspet · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United States of America · 587Mexico · 3

Sources and credits

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California marginella

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