| Alvania sculptilis | |
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| Shell of Alvania sculptilis (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. sculptilis |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877) | |
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Alvania sculptilis is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Taxonomy
There is also the Australian marine species Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) (synonym and basionym: Merelina sculptilis May, 1920 ), a junior secondary homonym of Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877). However, the genus Alvania as currently used has a very broad taxonomic extension, and these two species may very well end up in different genera when a robust phylogeny becomes available. For the time being, it is thus advisable to keep using the invalid name Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) for the Australian species.
Description
The length of the shell attains 2 mm.
The shell is a little shouldered. It is smooth, yellowish, with dark colored punctate dots in spiral series, about six series on the body whorl. The lip is a little thickened.
Distribution
This rare species occurs in European waters (the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers and Greece)
References
- ^ Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 1877). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania sculptilis (Monterosato, 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=141236 on 30 July 2012 .
- Criscione F. & Ponder W.F. (2011) A review of the Recent Australian species of Merelina Iredale, 1915 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae). Molluscan Research 31(2): 65-84.
- Bouchet, P. (2011). Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578549 on 2012-07-30
- 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.
- The Nautilus v. 12 1896-1899
- 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
External links
- Pallary, P. (1900). Coquilles marines du littoral du département d'Oran. Journal de Conchyliologie. 48(3): 211-422
- Tringali L.P. (2001). Marine malacological records (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia, Heterobranchia, Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata) from Torres de Alcalá, Mediterranean Morocco, with the description of a new philinid species. Bollettino Malacologico 37(9-12): 207-222
- Villari A. & Scuderi D. (2017). Taxonomical notes on some poorly known mollusca species from the Strait of Messina (Italy). Biodiversity Journal. 8 (1): 193–204
- 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
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| Alvania sculptilis | |