Alvania cancellata

Alvania cancellata
Shell of Alvania cancellata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. cancellata
Binomial name
Alvania cancellata (da Costa, 1778) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Acinopsis cancellata(da Costa, 1778) Alvania (Acinopsis) cancellata(da Costa, 1778) Acinopsis cancellina(Locard, 1892) Acinopsis venterF. Nordsieck, 1972 Alvania cancellinaLocard, 1891 · Alvania laxaDautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896 Alvania paupercula(Jeffreys, 1867) Rissoa (Alvania) laxa(Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896) Rissoa cancellata(da Costa, 1778) Rissoa cancellata var. pauperculaJeffreys, 1867 Rissoa crenulataMichaud, 1830 Turbo cancellatusda Costa, 1778 (original combination)

Alvania cancellata is a species of small sea snail, or micromollusc. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the Rissoidae family. ^[2]

Description

The shell is yellowish white, tinted and faintly banded with chestnut. The shell has ribs along the length and spiral ridges, with bumps where they intersect. The shell contains 6-7 whorls, coming to a pointed spire. The suture is widely channelled. The aperture is expanded, brownish red and sulcate within, subcanaliculate below. The lip has distinct ridges along the outer edge, and the columella has anterior bumps. ^[3]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea (Corsica, Greece), in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean near Guernsey and Cornwall, English Channel, West Africa and near Madeira and the Azores.

Fossils were found in Pleistocene strata near Messina and Palermo, Sicily.

References

1. da Costa, E.M. (1778) Historia Naturalis Testaceorum Britanniae, or, the British Conchology; Containing Descriptions and Other Particulars of Natural History of the Shells of Great Britain and Ireland. da Costa and Millan, B. White, Elmsley and Robson, Lo. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
2. Alvania cancellata (da Costa, 1778) . Gofas, S. (2010). Alvania cancellata (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141165 on 9 August 2010 .
3. G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9

Sources

• Nordsieck, F. (1972). Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp.
• Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341
• Ávila, S.P.; Cardigos, F.; Santos, R.S. (2004). D. João de Castro Bank, a shallow water hydrothermal-vent in the Azores: checklist of marine Molluscs. Arquipélago (Ciénc. Biol. Mar./Life Mar. Sci.) 21A: 75-80

External links

• Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vi
• Locard, A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 37: 1-385
• Dautzenberg, P. & Fischer, H. (1896). Dragages effectués par l'Hirondelle et par la Princesse Alice 1888-1895. 1. Mollusques Gastéropodes. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France. 9: 395-498, pl. 15-22
• 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
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references