Alvania dorbignyi

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Alvania dorbignyi
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Shell of Alvania dorbignyi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. dorbignyi
Binomial name
Alvania dorbignyi
(Audouin, 1826)
Synonyms [1]
  • Alvania (Alvanolira) dorbignyii(Audouin, 1827)
  • Alvania orbignyi (misspelling)
  • Rissoa dorbignyiAudouin, 1826

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

Contents

Subspecies: Alvania dorbignyi perversaF. Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Alvania perversa F. Nordsieck, 1972 (superseded rank)

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.45 mm, its diameter 1.35 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea (Greece, Egypt), but it also may be an Indo-Pacific immigrant. [2] It is considered cryptogenic. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Alvania dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania dorbignyi (Audouin, 1826). 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=141183 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. Nordsieck F. 1972b. Marine Gastropoden aus der Shiqmona-Bucht in israël. Archiv für Molluskenkunde 102(4–6): 227–245
  3. Gofas S. & Zenetos A. 2003. Exotic molluscs in the Mediterranean basin: current status and perspectives. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review, 41: 237–277