Alvania pseudoareolata

Alvania pseudoareolata
Shell of Alvania pseudoareolata (specimen at the Natural History 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. pseudoareolata
Binomial name
Alvania pseudoareolata
Warén, 1974

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

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off North Carolina, USA and the Gulf of St. Lawrence

Description

The maximum recorded shell length is 2.9 mm.[2]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 18 m.[2] Maximum recorded depth is 808 m.[2]

References

  1. ^ Alvania pseudoareolata Warén, 1974. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania pseudoareolata Warén, 1974. 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=141228 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ^ a b c Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.
  • Verrill, A. E. (1879). Notice of recent additions to the marine fauna of the east coast of North America. American Journal of Science and Arts. 3: 17-309.
  • Warén A. (1974). Revision of the Arctic-Atlantic Rissoidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Zoologica Scripta 3: 121-135
  • Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.


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