Alvania datchaensis

Alvania datchaensis
Shell of Alvania datchaensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. datchaensis
Binomial name
Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987

Alvania datchaensis is a species of small 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

The holotype of this marine species was found off Turkey. It occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the Aegean Sea off the island Rhodes.

References

1. Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987. 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=141176 on 9 August 2010 .

• Amati B. & Oliverio M. (1987). Alvania datchaensis sp. n. (Gastropoda). Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 9 (10): 46-53
• Tisselli M. & Giunchi L., 2013. Two new species of Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) from north-west Turkey (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda Rissoidae). Notebook of Studies and News on the Natural History of Romagna37: 163-174

External links

• Bitlis B. & Öztürk B. (2017). The genus Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) along the Turkish Aegean coast with the description of a new species. Scientia Marina. 81(3): 395-411.
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references