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Alvania datchaensis

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Alvania datchaensis
Shell of Alvania datchaensis (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
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. datchaensis
Binomial name
Alvania datchaensis
Amati & Oliverio, 1987

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

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

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The holotype of this marine species was found off Turkey. It occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and in the Aegean Sea off the island Rhodes.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania datchaensis Amati & Oliverio, 1987. 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=141176 on 9 August 2010 .
  • Amati B. & Oliverio M. (1987). Alvania datchaensis sp. n. (Gastropoda). Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 9 (10): 46-53
  • Tisselli M. & Giunchi L., 2013. Two new species of Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) from north-west Turkey (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda Rissoidae). Notebook of Studies and News on the Natural History of Romagna37: 163-174
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