Alvania prusi

Alvania prusi
Shell of Alvania prusi (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. prusi
Binomial name
Alvania prusi (P. Fischer, 1877)
Synonyms
Rissoa (Alvania) prusiP. Fischer, 1877 (Alvania accepted as full genus)

Alvania prusi 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 5 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea.

Fossils were found on the island of Rhodes.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania prusi (P. Fischer, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874807 on 2024-01-28

External links

• Fischer, P. (1877). Diagnoses Molluscorum in stratis fossiliferis insulae Rhodi jacentium. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 78-81
• Garilli V. 2008. On some Neogene to Recent species related to Galeodina Monterosato, 1884, Galeodinopsis Sacco, 1895, and Massotia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, and Dollfus, 1884 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) with the description of two new Alvania species from the Mediterranean Pleistocene. The Nautilus, 122(1): 19–51