Alvania abstersa

Alvania abstersa
Scientific classification
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 obsoletavan 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 small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Azores.

References

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.

External links

• van der Linden J. & van Aartsen J.J. (1994). Alvania abstersa nom. nov., a new name for A. obsoleta van der Linden, 1993, non A. obsoleta (S.V. Wood, 1848) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Rissoidae). Basteria 58(1-2): 2,
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