Alvania prusi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
| Alvania prusi | |
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| Shell of Alvania prusi (syntype 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. prusi
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania prusi (P. Fischer, 1877)
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| Synonyms | |
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Rissoa (Alvania) prusi P. Fischer, 1877 (Alvania accepted as full genus) | |
Description
editThe length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea.
Fossils were found on the island of Rhodes.
References
edit- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania prusi (P. Fischer, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874807 on 2024-01-28
External links
edit- Fischer, P. (1877). Diagnoses Molluscorum in stratis fossiliferis insulae Rhodi jacentium. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 78-81
- Garilli V. 2008. On some Neogene to Recent species related to Galeodina Monterosato, 1884, Galeodinopsis Sacco, 1895, and Massotia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, and Dollfus, 1884 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) with the description of two new Alvania species from the Mediterranean Pleistocene. The Nautilus, 122(1): 19–51