Alvania venus is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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| Impression of the shell of Alvania venus on a rock. | |
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. venus
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| †Alvania venus (d'Orbigny, 1852)
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- Variety
- † Alvania venus var. robusta Calas, 1949: synonym of † Alvania robusta Calas, 1949 (raised to full species)
Distribution
editFossils of this species were in Miocene strata in Western France.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania venus (d'Orbigny, 1852) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1318738 on 2024-02-08
- Calas, P. (1949). Note préléminaire à une revision des Rissoinidae du Redonien. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Série 2. 21: 164–168.
External links
edit- Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1852). Prodrome de paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés, faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. vol. 3: 196 pp. Paris: Masson. Victor Masson, Paris. 1-189
- Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305
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