Alvania sculptilis

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Alvania sculptilis
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Shell of Alvania sculptilis (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. sculptilis
Binomial name
Alvania sculptilis
(Monterosato, 1877)
Synonyms [1]
  • Rissoa (Alvinia) conspicuaPallary, 1900
  • Rissoa sculptilisMonterosato, 1877 (basionym)
  • Rissoia sculptilis(Monterosato, 1877)

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

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Taxonomy

There is also the Australian marine species Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) (synonym and basionym: Merelina sculptilis May, 1920 ), [2] a junior secondary homonym of Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877). However, the genus Alvania as currently used has a very broad taxonomic extension, and these two species may very well end up in different genera when a robust phylogeny becomes available. For the time being, it is thus advisable to keep using the invalid name Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) for the Australian species. [3]

Description

The length of the shell attains 2 mm.

The shell is a little shouldered. It is smooth, yellowish, with dark colored punctate dots in spiral series, about six series on the body whorl. The lip is a little thickened. [4]

Distribution

This rare species occurs in European waters (the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers and Greece) [5]

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References

  1. 1 2 Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877). 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=141236 on 30 July 2012 .
  2. ↑ Criscione F. & Ponder W.F. (2011) A review of the Recent Australian species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). Molluscan Research 31(2): 65-84.
  3. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2011). Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578549 on 2012-07-30
  4. ↑ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9 PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .
  5. ↑ The Nautilus v. 12 1896-1899
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