Alvania tenera | |
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Shell of Alvania tenera (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. tenera
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Binomial name | |
Alvania tenera (
Philippi, 1844)
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Synonyms | |
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Alvania tenera is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 1.6 mm and 3 mm.
The thin shell is pellucid and brownish white. it contains 5 whorls, with a deep suture, and strong spiral ridges, of which there are 9-10 on the body whorl. The wider interstices are slightly longitudinally striated. The outer lip is simple and dentate by the ridges. [2]
This species occurs in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea.
Alvania tenera | |
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Shell of Alvania tenera (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. tenera
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Binomial name | |
Alvania tenera (
Philippi, 1844)
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Synonyms | |
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Alvania tenera is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell varies between 1.6 mm and 3 mm.
The thin shell is pellucid and brownish white. it contains 5 whorls, with a deep suture, and strong spiral ridges, of which there are 9-10 on the body whorl. The wider interstices are slightly longitudinally striated. The outer lip is simple and dentate by the ridges. [2]
This species occurs in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea.