Alvania clathrella

Alvania clathrella
shells of Alvania clathrella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. clathrella
Binomial name
Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903)
Synonyms
Alvania (Alvinia) clathrellaL. Seguenza, 1903

Alvania clathrella is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

This species mostly occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.

References

1. Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania clathrella (Seguenza L., 1903). 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=141171 on 9 August 2010 .

External links

• Seguenza L. (1903). Rissoidi neogenici della provincia di Messina. Paleeontographica Italica. 9: 35-60, pl. 11.,
• Amati B. & Smriglio C. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the Alvania dictyophora-complex with the description of Alvania desabatae spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Iberus. 34(2): 163-180
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references