Alvania pseudoareolata

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Alvania pseudoareolata
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Shell of Alvania pseudoareolata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. pseudoareolata
Binomial name
Alvania pseudoareolata
Warén, 1974

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

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, USA and the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 2.9 mm. [2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 18 m. [2] Maximum recorded depth is 808 m. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Alvania pseudoareolata Warén, 1974 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania pseudoareolata Warén, 1974. 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=141228 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. 1 2 3 Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi : 10.1371/journal.pone.0008776 .
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