Alvania dijkstrai
| Alvania dijkstrai | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. dijkstrai
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania dijkstrai (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998)
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Alvania dijkstrai is a species of minute sea snail in the family Rissoidae[1]
Description
[edit]It has an ovate shell, 2.10 to 2.75 millimetres (0.083 to 0.108 in) in height and 1.25 to 1.50 millimetres (0.049 to 0.059 in) in length with a thin outer lip. Sometimes two rows of very vague, light brown dots are visible on the ultimate whorl, one just subsutural and one on the shell base.[2]
Distribution
[edit]It is endemic to the Selvagens Archipelago off Northwest Africa.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Alvania dijkstrai (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania dijkstrai (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998). 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=141179 on 9 August 2010 .
- ^ "The Rissoidae of the CANCAP expeditions, I: the genus Alvania Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda Prosobranchia)". H.J. Hoenselaar & J. Goud. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
External links
[edit]- 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
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