Alvania electa

Alvania electa
Shell of Alvania electa (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. electa
Binomial name
Alvania electa (Monterosato, 1874)
Synonyms
Alvania deliciosa(Jeffreys, 1884) Rissoa deliciosaJeffreys, 1884 Rissoa electaMonterosato, 1874

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Mediterranean Sea; also in the Gulf of Cadiz and off Madeira.

References

1. Alvania electa (Monterosato, 1874) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania electa (Monterosato, 1874). 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=141184 on 9 August 2010 .

• 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
• Sysoev A.V. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Gastropoda. Invertebrate Zoology. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155
• Manousis T., Kontadakis C. & Mbazios G. & Galinou-Mitsoudi S. , 2019. New records of Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) for the Hellenic Seas with the description of Rissoa electrae n. sp.. Xenophora Taxonomy 26: 11-19

External links

• Monterosato T. A. (di) (1874 (luglio)). Recherches conchyliologiques, effectuées au Cap Santo Vito, en Sicile. (Traduz. dall'italiano di H. Crosse). Journal de Conchyliologie 22 (3) : 243-282 (luglio) 22 (4)
• Jeffreys J.G. 1884. On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions 1868-70 (Part VII). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1884: 111-149, pl. 9-10
• Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840
• Segers, Willy, Frank Swinnen, and António Domingos Abreu. "An annotated checklist of the marine molluscs from the archipelagos of Madeira and the Selvagens (NE Atlantic Ocean)." (2009).