Alvania rudis

Alvania rudis
Shell of Alvania rudis (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. rudis
Binomial name
Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844)
Synonyms
Alvania rudis hyperrudisOberling, 1970 Rissoa rudisR. A. Philippi, 1844 superseded combination Turboella (Thapsiella) rudis(R. A. Philippi, 1844) superseded combination

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.

References

1. Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844). 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=141232 on 9 August 2010 .

• Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen. 1: 1-7.

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28
• 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