Alvania salebrosa
Appearance
Alvania salebrosa | |
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Drawing of a shell of Alvania salebrosa (holotype) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | A. salebrosa
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Binomial name | |
Alvania salebrosa Frauenfeld, 1867
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Alvania salebrosa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Description
[edit]The length of the shell attains 2.6 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
The thick, somewhat shining, brownish shell is depressed conical. It shows 10-12 strong, close, rounded ribs, subnodose at the suture, and on the angulated periphery of the body whorl. The shell contains 5½ flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing. [2]
Distribution
[edit]This marine species occurs off Sydney, Australia.
References
[edit]- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania salebrosa Frauenfeld, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=865801 on 2024-01-28
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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