Alvania sororcula 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 sororcula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
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. sororcula
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| Binomial name | |
| Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877
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Description edit
The length of the shell varies between 3 mm and 4 mm.
The shell is whitish or fulvous.it shows prominent spiral lirae, decussated by a less elevated longitudinal sculpture, which becomes obsolete on the base. The shell contains five, convex, subangulate whorls. The suture is deepand channeled. The outer lip is scarcely varicose. [2]
Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy (Island of Elba) and off Greece.
References edit
- ^ Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania sororcula Granata-Grillo, 1877. 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=141241 on 9 August 2010 .
- ^ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Granata Grillo, G. (1876-1877). Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi del Mediterraneo. Catalogo delle conchiglie di Messina e dintorni. Il Barth, Giornale di Medicina e Scienze Naturali, Malta
- Granata Grillo, G. (1877). Descriptions de quelques espèces nouvelles ou peu connues. Napoli, Salvatore Marchese, 16 pp
External links edit
- 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
- Amati, B.; Appolloni, M.; Giulio, A. D.; Scuderi, D.; Smriglio, C.; Oliverio, M. (2020). Revision of the Recent Alvania scabra (Philippi, 1844) complex (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea with the description of a new species. Zootaxa. 4767(3): 415-458
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references