| Alvania awamoaensis | |
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| Shell of Alvania awamoaensis (holotype) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | †A. awamoaensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania awamoaensis (H. J. Finlay, 1924) | |
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Alvania awamoaensis is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 2.1 mm, its diameter 1.1 mm.
Fossils of this species were found in Tertiary strata on Awamoa, North Otago, New Zealand