Alvania multinodula

Alvania multinodula
Shell of Alvania multinodula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. multinodula
Binomial name
Alvania multinodula Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2.3 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde.

References

1. Alvania multinodula Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998 . WoRMS (2009). Alvania multinodula Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224658 on 9 August 2010 .

Further reading

• Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN   978-3-325-31973-6. 455 pp

External links

• Hoenselaar H.J. & Goud J. (1998). The Rissoidae of the CANCAP expeditions, I: the genus Alvania Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Basteria. 62(1-2): 69-115.