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Volvarina obscura (Reeve, 1865) 
AphiaID: 474057

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Marginellidae (Family) > Marginellinae (Subfamily) > Volvarina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Volvarina Hinds, 1844
Synonymised
taxa
  Marginella obscura Reeve, 1865 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: Moreno D. & Burnay L.P. (1999) The genus Volvarina (Gastropoda: Marginellidae) in the Cape Verde Islands. Journal of Conchology 36(5): 83-124. [August 1999] [details]

additional source: Cossignani T. (2006). Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World. L'Informatore Piceno. 408pp. [details]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Volvarina obscura
Volvarina obscura
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:474057
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-04-30 13:05:22Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2012-01-08 19:50:18Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Volvarina obscura (Reeve, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=474057 on 2013-05-24
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