Alvania venus

Alvania venus
Impression of the shell of Alvania venus on a rock.
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. venus
Binomial name
†Alvania venus
(d'Orbigny, 1852)
Synonyms
  • † Alvania (Turbona) venus (d'Orbigny, 1852)
  • † Rissoa venus d'Orbigny, 1852

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

Variety
  • † Alvania venus var. robusta Calas, 1949: synonym of † Alvania robusta Calas, 1949 (raised to full species)

Distribution

Fossils of this species were in Miocene strata in Western France.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania venus (d'Orbigny, 1852) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1318738 on 2024-02-08
  • Calas, P. (1949). Note préléminaire à une revision des Rissoinidae du Redonien. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Série 2. 21: 164–168.


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