Alvania tessellata

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Alvania tessellata
File:Alvania tessellata 001.jpg
Shell of Alvania tessellata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. tessellata
Binomial name
Alvania tessellata
Weinkauff, 1868

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.6 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Spain and Algeria.

References

  1. Alvania tessellata Weinkauff, 1868. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania tessellata Weinkauff, 1868. 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=141250 on 9 August 2010 .

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