Alvania pagodula

Alvania pagodula
Shell of Alvania pagodula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. pagodula
Binomial name
Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884)
Synonyms
Rissoa pagodulaBucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 · unaccepted Rissoa philippianaJeffreys, 1856 (junior homonym of Rissoa philippianaNyst, 1845)

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 1.7 mm and 4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Western Mediterranean Sea.

References

1. Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884). 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=141222 on 9 August 2010 .

External links

• Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, P. & Dollfus, G. (1882-1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls
• Jeffreys, J. G. (1856). On the marine Testacea of the Piedmontese coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 17: 155-18
• 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
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references