Alvania productilis

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

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 2+1⁄8 mm, its diameter 1+1⁄4 mm.

Distribution

Fossils of this marine species were found in Middle Miocene strata in Romania and Turkey.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania productilis O. Boettger, 1907 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=871435 on 2024-02-03

• 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