Volvarina angustata

Volvarina angustata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Marginellidae
Subfamily:	Marginellinae
Genus:	Volvarina
Species:	V. angustata
Binomial name
	Volvarina angustata; (Sowerby II, 1846)
Synonyms
	Bullata angustata (G.B. Sowerby, 1846); Cryptospira angustata (G.B. Sowerby, 1846); Marginella angustata Sowerby, 1846 (basionym);

Volvarina angustata, common name : the narrow marginella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Marginellidae, the margin snails.^[1]

Description

The shell size varies between 11 mm and 28 mm

This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along the Mascarene basin, Réunion, and in the Gulf of Bengal along the Andaman Islands, Sri Lanka and Southern India.

Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp
Wakefield A. (2010) A revision of the genus Cryptospira Hinds, 1844 (Caenogastropoda: Marginellidae). Novapex Hors-série 7: 1-55.

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