Alvania sororcula | |
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Shell of Alvania sororcula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
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. sororcula
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Binomial name | |
Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877
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Synonyms | |
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Alvania sororcula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4 mm.
The shell is whitish or fulvous.it shows prominent spiral lirae, decussated by a less elevated longitudinal sculpture, which becomes obsolete on the base. The shell contains five, convex, subangulate whorls. The suture is deepand channeled. The outer lip is scarcely varicose. [2]
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy (Island of Elba) and off Greece.
Alvania sororcula | |
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Shell of Alvania sororcula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
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. sororcula
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Binomial name | |
Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877
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Synonyms | |
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Alvania sororcula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4 mm.
The shell is whitish or fulvous.it shows prominent spiral lirae, decussated by a less elevated longitudinal sculpture, which becomes obsolete on the base. The shell contains five, convex, subangulate whorls. The suture is deepand channeled. The outer lip is scarcely varicose. [2]
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy (Island of Elba) and off Greece.