Alvania adinogramma

Alvania adinogramma
Shell of Alvania adinogramma (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. adinogramma
Binomial name
Alvania adinogramma Bouchet & Warén, 1993 [1]

Alvania adinogramma is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[2]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

This deep-sea species occurs in the Atlantic Sea off the Azores and in the northeast Atlantic

References

1. Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
2. Alvania adinogramma Bouchet & Warén, 1993 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania adinogramma Bouchet & Warén, 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=141153 on 9 August 2010 .

• Gofas S. (2007). Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northeast Atlantic seamounts. Journal of Natural History 41(13–16): 779–885

External links

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213