Alvania curta
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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. curta
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| †Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837)
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Alvania curta is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
- Subgenus
- † Alvania curta var. mioelongata Peyrot, 1938
- † Alvania curta nieheimensis Hinsch, 1972: accepted as † Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) (within the variability of the nominate)
- † Alvania curta rarecostata Friedberg, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
Distribution[edit]
Fossils of this species were in Lower Oligocene strata near Mérignac, France and in Upper Tortonian strata near Vienna, Austria.
References[edit]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872790 on 2024-02-08
- Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49(1): 111–134.
External links[edit]
- Dujardin, F. (1837). Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine, et description des coquilles de la craie et des faluns. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 2(2): 211–311, pls 15-21
- Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305
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