Alvania moerchi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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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. moerchi
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania moerchi (Collin, 1886)
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Description
editThe length of the shell attains 3 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in Arctic waters (Saguenay Fjord; downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary ); also off the Faroes.
References
edit- ^ Alvania moerchi (Collin, 1886). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania moerchi (Collin, 1886). 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=141216 on 9 August 2010 .
- Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
- Warén A. (1974). Revision of the Arctic-Atlantic Rissoidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Zoologica Scripta 3: 121-135
External links
edit- Collin J. (1886). Brachionopoder, muslinger og snegle fra Kara-Havet. In: Lütken C.F. (ed.) Dijmphna-Togtets zoologisk-botaniske Udbytte: 441-472, pls 41-41.
- 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
- Warén A. (1996). New and little known mollusca from Iceland and Scandinavia. Part 3. Sarsia 81: 197-245