Alvania venusta
| Alvania venusta | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. venusta
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania venusta (A. W. B. Powell, 1926)
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Alvania venusta is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
Description[edit]
The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
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Distribution[edit]
This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Lyttelton and off Chatham Rise.
References[edit]
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania venusta (A. W. B. Powell, 1926). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598550 on 2024-01-31
- Powell, A. W. B. (1926). Mollusca from 100 fathoms off Lyttelton, with descriptions of four new species, and also a new Pliocene fossil. Scientific Results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 3: 43–50
- Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
- Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
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