Alvania planciusi

Alvania planciusi
Shell of Alvania planciusi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. planciusi
Binomial name
Alvania planciusi Moolenbeek & Rolán, 1988

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Verde

References

1. Alvania plauciusi Moolenbeek & Rolán, 1988 . WoRMS (2009). Alvania plauciusi Moolenbeek & Rolán, 1988. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224663 on 9 August 2010 .

• Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda.
• Templado, J.; Rolán, E. (1994 ["1993"]). Las especies del género Crisilla y afines (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Rissoidea) en el archipiélago de Cabo Verde. Iberus. 11(2): 1-25

External links

• Moolenbeek R.G. & Rolán E. (1988). New species of Rissoidae from the Cape Verde Islands (Mollusca: Gastropoda) part 1. Bulletin Zoölogisch Museum. 11(14): 121-126