Alvania tenuicostata

Alvania tenuicostata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. tenuicostata
Binomial name
†Alvania tenuicostata (G. Seguenza, 1876)
Synonyms
† Rissoa (Alvania) tenuicostata G. Seguenza, 1876 superseded combination (Alvania accepted as full genus)

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

Distribution

Fossils were found in Pliocene strata off Messina, Italy.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania tenuicostata (G. Seguenza, 1876) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=883943 on 2024-02-10

External links

• Seguenza G. (1876). Di alcuni molluschi del mare di Messina. Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana. 2(1): 62-65
• Amati B. & Smriglio C. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the Alvania dictyophora-complex with the description of Alvania desabatae spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Iberus. 34(2): 163-180