Alvania datchaensis
Appearance
Alvania datchaensis | |
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Shell of Alvania datchaensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | A. datchaensis
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Binomial name | |
Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987
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Alvania datchaensis 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]The holotype of this marine species was found off Turkey. It occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the Aegean Sea off the island Rhodes.
References
[edit]- ^ Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987. 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=141176 on 9 August 2010 .
- Amati B. & Oliverio M. (1987). Alvania datchaensis sp. n. (Gastropoda). Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 9 (10): 46-53
- Tisselli M. & Giunchi L., 2013. Two new species of Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) from north-west Turkey (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda Rissoidae). Notebook of Studies and News on the Natural History of Romagna37: 163-174
External links
[edit]- Bitlis B. & Öztürk B. (2017). The genus Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) along the Turkish Aegean coast with the description of a new species. Scientia Marina. 81(3): 395-411.
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references
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