Alvania ziziphina is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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| Shell of Alvania ziziphina (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
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. ziziphina
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania ziziphina Dollfus, 1949
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Distribution
editFossils have been found in Pliocene strata in Brittany, France.
References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania ziziphina Dollfus, 1949 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1318707 on 2024-02-18
- Calas, P. (1949). Note préléminaire à une revision des Rissoinidae du Redonien. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Série 2. 21: 164–168.
- 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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