Alvania lamellata

Alvania lamellata
Shell of Alvania lamellata (juvenile specimen) (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. lamellata
Binomial name
Alvania lamellata Dautzenberg, 1889

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 2 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.

References

1. Alvania lamellata Dautzenberg, 1889 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .

External links

• Dautzenberg, P. (1889). Contribution à la faune malacologique des Iles Açores. Resultats des dragages effectués par le yacht l'Hirondelle pendant sa campagne scientifique de 1887. Révision des mollusques marins des Açores. Résultats des Campagnes Scientifiques Accomplies sur son Yacht par Albert Ier Prince Souverain de Monaco, I. Imprimerie de Monaco. 112 pp.; IV plates
• 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
• Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840
• Le Duff, M.; Bongiorni, L.; Zeppilli, D.; Grall, J. (2014). On the presence of the rissoid gastropod Alvania lamellata Dautzenberg, 1889 on the top of the azorean Condor seamount (206 m depth). An aod - les cahiers naturalistes de l'Observatoire marin. 3(1), 21-23