Alvania pagodula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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| Shell of Alvania pagodula | |
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. pagodula
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| Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884)
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Description
editThe length of the shell varies between 1.7 mm and 4 mm.
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Distribution
editThis species occurs in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
References
edit- ^ Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania pagodula (Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884). 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=141222 on 9 August 2010 .
External links
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- Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, P. & Dollfus, G. (1882-1886). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome Ier. Gastropodes. Paris: Baillière & fils. 570 pp., 66 pls
- Jeffreys, J. G. (1856). On the marine Testacea of the Piedmontese coast. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 2, 17: 155-18
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references