| Alvania lactea | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. lactea |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832) | |
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Alvania lactea is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.
The thin shell is subtranslucid to opaque. It is feebly longitudinally and spirally closely costellate. The color is yellowish white or white. The shell contains 5-6, subconvex whorls with linear suture. The outer lip is scarcely thickened externally.
Distribution
This species occurs in the North Sea; also off Morocco and in the Black Sea; in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece.
Fossils were found in Pleistocene-Pliocene strata in the Netherlands and Pleistocene strata near Saint-Malo, France.
References
- Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141203 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
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- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België . Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. . Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp
- Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
- (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of aggregate extraction activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea
External links
- Michaud, A. L. G. (1830). Description de plusieurs espèces de coquilles du genre Rissoa. Lyon: Perrin. 19 pp., 1 pl
- Monterosato, T. A. di. (1889). Coquilles marines marocaines. Journal de Conchyliologie. 37(1): 20-40 (2 May 1889); 37(2): 112-121
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references
- 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
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| Alvania lactea | |