Alvania schwartziana

Alvania schwartziana
Shell of Alvania schwartziana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. schwartziana
Binomial name
Alvania schwartziana

Alvania schwartziana is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[2]

The specific name schwartziana is in honor of Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwartz von Mohrenstern.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Adriatic Sea off Croatia; also off Greece.

References

  1. ^ a b (in Italian) Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanisch Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 1-134. page 25-26.
  2. ^ Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866. 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=141234 on 9 August 2010 .

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