Alvania transiens is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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| Shell of Alvania transiens (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. transiens
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| †Alvania transiens Sacco, 1895
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Status
editFrom its original source (Sacco, 1895: 27) this is a nomen nudum, however, it has been treated as a valid species.[1]
Distribution
editFossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in Austria.
References
edit- ^ a b c MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania transiens Sacco, 1895 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990654 on 2024-02-15
- Cossmann (M.) & Peyrot (A.), 1919 - Conchologie néogènique de l'Aquitaine. Extraits des Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Bordeaux, t. 3, vol. 2, p. 385-695
- Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.
External links
edit- Sacco, F. (1895). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XVIII. (Melaniidae, Littorinidae, Fossaridae, Rissoidae, Hydrobiidae, Paludinidae e Valvatidae). Torino: Carlo Clausen. 51 pp., 1 pl
- Cossmann, M.; Peyrot, A. (1918-1919). Conchologie néogénique de l'Aquitaine. Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux. 70(1): 5-100 (1918); 70(2): 101-180, pl. 1-9 (1918); 70(3): 181-356, pls 11-17 (1919); 70(4): 357-491 (1919).
- Kovács, Z.; Stein, G. (2023). Middle Miocene Rissooidea (Caenogastropoda) of Letkés (Hungary). Földtani Közlöny. 153(1): 19-34
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