Alvania critica

Alvania critica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. critica
Binomial name
†Alvania critica O. Boettger, 1907
Synonyms
† Alvania helenae var. critica O. Boettger, 1907 (basionym)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.

Distribution

Fossils were found in the Miocene strata in Central Europe, Greece and Turkey.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania critica O. Boettger, 1907 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341514 on 2024-02-11

• Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.

External links

• Boettger, O. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó–Szörényer Komitat (Gasteropoden und Anneliden). III. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 55 (1905): 101-244. Hermannstadt This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
• Thivaiou D., Harzhauser M. & Koskeridou E. (2019). Early Miocene gastropods from the Felli section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea, NW Greece). Geodiversitas. 41(8): 323-366.