Alvania algeriana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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| Shell of Alvania algeriana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. algeriana
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania algeriana (Monterosato, 1877)
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| Synonyms | |
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Rissoa algeriana Monterosato, 1877 | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 3 mm to 4.7 mm.
The shell is imperforate. It has rounded longitudinal ribs and about equal interspaces. it is yellowish brown, with a brown subsutural band and three more on the base. The lip is simple and sharp. [2]
Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Algeria, Tunisia and southern Corsica
References
edit- ^ Alvania algeriana (Monterosato, 1877). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania algeriana (Monterosato, 1877). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141155 on 9 August 2010 .
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
External links
edit- Monterosato, T. A. di. (1877). Note sur quelques coquilles provenant des côtes d'Algérie. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25(1): 24-49, pls 2, 3
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
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