Alvania calasi is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
| Alvania calasi | |
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| Shell of Alvania calasi (paratype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | †A. calasi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania calasi Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016
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Distribution
editFossils of this species were in the Lower Pliocene strata in the Loire-Atlantique, France.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania calasi Van Dingenen, Ceulemans & Landau, 2016 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1319646 on 2024-02-10
Van Dingenen F., Ceulemans L. & Landau B.M. (2016). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, north west France), 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 16(2): 109-219
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