Alvania maclurgi | |
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Shell of Alvania maclurgi (specimen at the Museum of New Zealand) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | A. maclurgi |
Binomial name | |
Alvania maclurgi (A. W. B. Powell, 1933) | |
Synonyms | |
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Alvania maclurgi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 1.8 m, its diameter 1.05 mm.
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This species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Chatham Island and Bounty Island.
Arthur William Baden Powell was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the 20th century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".
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