Alvania dorbignyi

Alvania dorbignyi
Shell of Alvania dorbignyi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
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 small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. ^[1]

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 Nordsieck, 1972: synonym of Alvania perversa F. Nordsieck, 1972 (superseded rank)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]

References

1. 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

• Savigny, J-.C., 1817 Description de l'Egypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'Armée française, publié par les ordres de sa Majesté l'Empereur Napoléon le Grand. Histoire Naturelle, p. 339 pp
• 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

External links

• Audouin, J.V., 1826 Explication sommaire des planches (Mollusques - Annelides - Crustacés - Arachnides - Insectes - Echinodermes - Zoophytes - Ascidies - Polypes - Hydrophytes - Oiseaux) dont les dessins ont été fournis par M.J.C. Savigny, pour l'histoire naturelle de l'ouvrage. Description de l'Égypte, ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française, publié par les ordres de Sa Majesté l'empereur Napoléon le Grand. , vol. 1(4), p. 7-56
• Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245
• Bouchet P. & Danrigal F. (1982). Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign (1798-1801) and the Savigny collection of shells. The Nautilus, 96(1): 9-24
• Zenetos, A.; Gofas, S.; Verlaque, M.; Cinar, M.; Garcia Raso, J.; Bianchi, C.; Morri, C.; Azzurro, E.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Froglia, C.; Siokou, I.; Violanti, D.; Sfriso, A.; San Martin, G.; Giangrande, A.; Katagan, T.; Ballesteros, E.; Ramos-Espla, A.; Mastrototaro, F.; Ocana, O.; Zingone, A.; Gambi, M.; Streftaris, N. (2010). Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea by 2010. A contribution to the application of European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). Part I. Spatial distribution. Mediterranean Marine Science. 11(2): 381-493
• Amati, Bruno, et al. "Notes on some taxa of the Alvania lineata-complex with the descriptions of three new species from the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda: Rissoidae)." Iberus 37.1 (2019): 81-112.
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references