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Alvania glabra

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Alvania glabra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. glabra
Binomial name
Alvania glabra
Leach, 1852

Alvania glabra is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 3.17 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is smooth. It contains four whorls. They show on the right side a sculptured line. [2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Plymouth Sound, Great Britain.

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