Alvania schwartziana

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Alvania schwartziana
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Shell of Alvania schwartziana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. schwartziana
Binomial name
Alvania schwartziana
Brusina, 1866 [1]

Alvania schwartziana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [2]

Contents

The specific name schwartziana is in honor of Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwartz von Mohrenstern. [1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Adriatic Sea off Croatia; also off Greece.

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References

  1. 1 2 (in Italian) Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanisch Gesellschaft in Wien16: 1-134. page 25-26.
  2. ↑ Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866 . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866. 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=141234 on 9 August 2010 .
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