Alvania rudis

Alvania rudis
Shell of Alvania rudis (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. rudis
Binomial name
Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844)
Synonyms
Alvania rudis hyperrudis Oberling, 1970 Rissoa rudis R. A. Philippi, 1844 superseded combination Turboella (Thapsiella) rudis (R. A. Philippi, 1844) superseded combination

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.

References

1. Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844). 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=141232 on 9 August 2010 .

• Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen. 1: 1-7.

External links

• Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28
• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references