Alvania carinata

Alvania carinata
Shell of Alvania carinata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
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. carinata
Binomial name
Alvania carinata
(da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms
  • Alvania russinoniaca Locard, 1886
  • Galeodina carinata (da Costa, 1778) superseded combination
  • Galeodina striatula (da Costa, 1778)
  • Galeodina striatula var. minorecarinata Monterosato, 1884
  • Rissoa (Galeodina) carinata (da Costa, 1778)
  • Rissoa (Galeodina) carinata var. ecarinata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884
  • Rissoa labiata R. A. Philippi, 1836 junior subjective synonym
  • Rissoa striatula (Montagu, 1803)
  • Rissoa trochlea Michaud, 1830
  • Turbo carinatus da Costa, 1778
  • Turbo monilis W. Turton, 1819
  • Turbo striatulus da Costa, 1778
  • Turbo striatulus Montagu, 1803

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

Description

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The length of the shell attains 3.4 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.

(Described as Rissoa striatula) The rather solid shell is opaque and yellowish white. It is thinly longitudinally striate in the interstices between much stronger spiral ridges, which carinate and shoulder the whorls. The aperture is a little dilated below, smooth within, ridged-varicose externally.[2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean, northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (France, Greece, Turkey)

References

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  1. ^ Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141166 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
  • Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, Ph. & Dollfus, G., 1884 - Gastropodes avec atlas de 66 planches. In : Les mollusques marins du Roussillon, vol. 1, p. 299-342, pls 36–40
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