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Alvania tomentosa

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Alvania tomentosa
Shell of Alvania tomentosa (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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. tomentosa
Binomial name
Alvania tomentosa
(Pallary, 1920)
Synonyms
  • Alvania altenai van Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger, 1984
  • Rissoa tomentosa Pallary, 1920

Alvania tomentosa 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 varies between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy; in the Strait of Gibraltar (Moroccan part)

References

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  1. ^ Alvania tomentosa (Pallary, 1920). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania tomentosa (Pallary, 1920). 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=141252 on 9 August 2010 .
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