| Alvania sororcula | |
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| Shell of Alvania sororcula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. sororcula |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877 | |
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Alvania sororcula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy (Island of Elba) and off Greece.
References
- ↑ Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141241 on 9 August 2010 .
- Granata Grillo, G. (1876-1877). Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi del Mediterraneo. Catalogo delle conchiglie di Messina e dintorni. Il Barth, Giornale di Medicina e Scienze Naturali, Malta
- Granata Grillo, G. (1877). Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Napoli, Salvatore Marchese, 16 pp
External links
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
- Amati, B.; Appolloni, M.; Giulio, A. D.; Scuderi, D.; Smriglio, C.; Oliverio, M. (2020). Revision of the Recent Alvania scabra (Philippi, 1844) complex (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea with the description of a new species. Zootaxa. 4767(3): 415-458
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