Alvania garrafensis

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Alvania garrafensis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. garrafensis
Binomial name
Alvania garrafensis
Peñas & Rolán, 2008 [1]

Alvania garrafensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [2]

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Description

The length of the shell attains 2.8 mm, its diameter 1.65 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Garraf, Spanish Mediterranean coastline.

References

  1. ↑ Peñas A., Rolán E. & Ballesteros M., 2008: Segunda adición a la fauna malacológica del litoral de Garraf (NE de la Península Ibérica). Iberus26(2): 15-42. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
  2. ↑ Alvania garrafensis Peñas & Rolán, 2008 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania garrafensis Peñas & Rolán, 2008. 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=380558 on 9 August 2010 .
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