Alvania mamillata

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Alvania mamillata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. mamillata
Binomial name
Alvania mamillata
Risso, 1826
Synonyms
  • Alvania cingulata(Philippi, 1836)
  • Rissoa cimex var. depauperataMonterosato, 1877 (dubious syn.)
  • Rissoa cingulataPhilippi, 1836

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

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Description

The length of the shell attains 4.8 mm.

The imperforate shell is strong and opaque. It is covered by rounded granules in longitudinal and spiral series. It has a white or light fulvous to chestnut color, unicolored or bifasciate. The lip is thick, labiate and sulcate within, white-varicose externally. [2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea (Malta, Greece, Turkey)

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References

  1. Alvania mamillata Risso, 1826 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania mamillata Risso, 1826. 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=141211 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 .