Alvania milleti is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
| Alvania milleti | |
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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. milleti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania milleti Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018
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| Synonyms | |
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† Rissoa suturalis Millet, 186 (invalid: junior homonym of Rissoa suturalis Philippi, 1844; Alvania milleti is a replacement name) | |
Distribution
editFossils of this marine species were found in upper Miocene strata in Maine-et-Loire, France.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania milleti Landau, Ceulemans & Van Dingenen, 2018 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1318646 on 2024-02-01
- Millet de la Turtaudière, P. A. (1865). Indicateur de Maine-et-Loire ou Indicateur par communes de ce que chacune d'elle renferme sous le rapport de la géographie, des productions naturelles, des monuments historiques, de l'industrie et du commerce. Tome Second. Cosnier et Lachèse, Angers, 616 pp.
- Landau B.M., Ceulemans L. & Van Dingenen F. (2018). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 177–368.
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