Volvarina abbreviata

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

Volvarina abbreviata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Marginellidae
Genus:	Volvarina
Species:	V. abbreviata
Binomial name
Volvarina abbreviata (C. B. Adams, 1850)
Synonyms[1]
Hyalina lactea (Kiener, 1841) Marginella abbreviata C.B. Adams, 1850 Marginella abreviata Petit, 1851 Marginella bella auct. Marginella lactea Kiener, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Marginella lactea Swainson, 1840) Volvarina lactea Kiener, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Marginella lactea Swainson, 1840) Prunum abbreviatum (C.B. Adams, 1850) Volvarina lactea (Kiener, 1841) ·

Description

The shell is oblong, but much contracted anteriorly. The shell is white, smooth and shining. The spire is very short. The apex is rather obtuse. The shell contains about 3⅓ whorls. The outer lip is incurved and contracting the aperture. The varix produces a little way on the spire. The columella with shows four plaits of which the upper one is small.^[2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Aruba, Caribbean Sea.