Alvania litoralis 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 litoralis (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. litoralis
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania litoralis (Nordsieck, 1972)
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Description
editThe shell attains a length of 3 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Ionian Sea off Cephalonia Island, Greece; also off Turkey.
References
edit- ^ Alvania litoralis (Nordsieck, 1972). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania litoralis (Nordsieck, 1972). 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=141208 on 9 August 2010 .
- Nordsieck, F. (1972). Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp.
External links
edit- van Aartsen, J. J.; Menkhorst, H. P. (1988). European marine Mollusca: notes on less well-known species. 12. Alvania gittenbergeri spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean. Basteria. 52 (1-3): 101-104
- Seguenza L. (1903). Rissoidi neogenici della provincia di Messina. Paleeontographica Italica. 9: 35-60, pl. 11
- 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.
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references