Alvania sororcula is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Alvania sororcula
Shell of Alvania sororcula (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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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
Binomial name
Alvania sororcula
Granata-Grillo, 1877
Synonyms
  • Rissoa (Alvania) asperella Granata Grillo, 1877
  • Rissoa (Alvania) sororcula Granata Grillo, 1877
  • Rissoa (Alvania) sororcula var. major Granata Grillo, 1877 ·

Description

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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

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This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Italy (Island of Elba) and off Greece.

References

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  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ^ 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
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