Alvania tomentosa

Alvania tomentosa
Shell of Alvania tomentosa (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. tomentosa
Binomial name
Alvania tomentosa (Pallary, 1920)
Synonyms
Alvania altenaivan Aartsen, Menkhorst & Gittenberger, 1984 Rissoa tomentosaPallary, 1920

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy; in the Strait of Gibraltar (Moroccan part)

References

1. Alvania tomentosa (Pallary, 1920) . Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania tomentosa (Pallary, 1920). 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=141252 on 9 August 2010 .

External links

• Pallary, P. (1920). Exploration scientifique du Maroc organisée par la Société de Géographie de Paris et continuée par la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc. Deuxième fascicule. Malacologie. i>Larose, Rabat et Paris pp. 108. 1(1): map
• van Aartsen, J.J.; Menkhorst, H.P.M.G.; Gittenberger, E. (1984). The marine mollusca of the Bay of Algeciras, Spain, with general notes on Mitrella, Marginellidae and Turridae. Basteria. Supplement 2: 1-135
• 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