The length of the shell attains 3.4 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.
(Described as Rissoa striatula) The rather solid shell is opaque and yellowish white. It is thinly longitudinally striate in the interstices between much stronger spiral ridges, which carinate and shoulder the
whorls. The
aperture is a little dilated below, smooth within, ridged-varicose externally. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Arctic Ocean, northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (
France,
Greece,
Turkey)
References
^Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the
World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141166 on 9 August 2010 .
Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, Ph. & Dollfus, G., 1884 - Gastropodes avec atlas de 66 planches. In : Les mollusques marins du Roussillon, vol. 1, p. 299-342, pls 36-40
The length of the shell attains 3.4 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.
(Described as Rissoa striatula) The rather solid shell is opaque and yellowish white. It is thinly longitudinally striate in the interstices between much stronger spiral ridges, which carinate and shoulder the
whorls. The
aperture is a little dilated below, smooth within, ridged-varicose externally. [2]
Distribution
This species occurs in the
Arctic Ocean, northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (
France,
Greece,
Turkey)
References
^Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the
World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141166 on 9 August 2010 .
Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, Ph. & Dollfus, G., 1884 - Gastropodes avec atlas de 66 planches. In : Les mollusques marins du Roussillon, vol. 1, p. 299-342, pls 36-40