Alvania weinkauffi | |
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Shell of Alvania weinkauffi weinkauffi (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. weinkauffi
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Binomial name | |
Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Alvania weinkauffi 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 2 mm and 4 mm.
The imperforate shell is thin, subpellucid and a little shining. It is whitish or yellowish. It has a clathrate sculpture by longitudinal riblets, and much stronger, distant spiral ridges. The shell contains six convex, angulated and shouldered whorls with a deeply incised suture. The aperture is smooth within and slightly varicose externally. [2]
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Algeria, Tunisia and Sicily.
Alvania weinkauffi | |
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Shell of Alvania weinkauffi weinkauffi (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. weinkauffi
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Binomial name | |
Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868
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Synonyms [1] | |
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Alvania weinkauffi 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 2 mm and 4 mm.
The imperforate shell is thin, subpellucid and a little shining. It is whitish or yellowish. It has a clathrate sculpture by longitudinal riblets, and much stronger, distant spiral ridges. The shell contains six convex, angulated and shouldered whorls with a deeply incised suture. The aperture is smooth within and slightly varicose externally. [2]
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Algeria, Tunisia and Sicily.