Alvania micropilosa

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Alvania micropilosa
Shell of Alvania micropilosa (specimen at the Natuurhistorisch Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. micropilosa
Binomial name
Alvania micropilosa
Gofas, 2007[1]

Alvania micropilosa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Rissoidae.[2]

Description[edit]

The length of the shell varies between 2.4 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution[edit]

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean on the Seewarte Seamounts

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gofas S. (2007). Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northeast Atlantic seamounts. Journal of Natural History 41(13–16): 779–885. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
  2. ^ Alvania micropilosa Gofas, 2007. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania micropilosa Gofas, 2007. 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=345733 on 9 August 2010 .