Alvania lanciae

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Alvania lanciae
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Shell of Alvania lanciae (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. lanciae
Binomial name
Alvania lanciae
(Calcara, 1845)
Synonyms
  • Alvania argutaLocard & Caziot, 1900
  • Alvania consociellaMonterosato, 1884
  • Alvania schwartzii(Aradas & Benoit, 1874)
  • Rissoa lanciaeCalcara, 1845 (original combination)
  • Rissoa schwartziiAradas & Benoit, 1874

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 3 mm.

The shell is yellowish, orange brown or yellowish white. It is longitudinally distantly costate, spirally lirate, and forming nodules on the ribs. The base of the shell is without ribs, but spirally striate. The shell contains 5-6, very convex whorls. The suture is deep and channeled. The outer lip is externally thickened. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Aegean Sea off the Cyclades, Greece; in the Mediterranean Sea off Corsica and Sardinia; also in the Sea of Marmara.

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References

  1. Alvania lanciae (Calcara, 1845) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania lanciae (Calcara, 1845). 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=141205 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .