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Alvania abstersa

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Alvania abstersa
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. abstersa
Binomial name
Alvania abstersa
van der Linden & van Aartsen, 1993
Synonyms

Alvania obsoleta van der Linden, 1993 (Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Alvania obsoleta (S.V. Wood, 1848); Alvania abstersa is a replacement name)

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

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Azores.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania abstersa van der Linden & van Aartsen, 1993. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania abstersa van der Linden & van Aartsen, 1993. 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=141151 on 9 August 2010 .
  • van der Linden J. (1993) Alvania obsoleta spec. nov. from the Azores (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia: Rissoidae). Basteria 57: 79-82.
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