Alvania clathrella
| Alvania clathrella | |
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| shells of Alvania clathrella | |
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. clathrella
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903)
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| Synonyms | |
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Alvania (Alvinia) clathrella L. Seguenza, 1903 | |
Alvania clathrella 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 varies between 2 mm and 3 mm.
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Distribution[edit]
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.
References[edit]
- ^ Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903). 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=141171 on 9 August 2010 .
External links[edit]
- Seguenza L. (1903). Rissoidi neogenici della provincia di Messina. Paleeontographica Italica. 9: 35-60, pl. 11.,
- Amati B. & Smriglio C. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the Alvania dictyophora-complex with the description of Alvania desabatae spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Iberus. 34(2): 163-180
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references