| Alvania tenera | |
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| Shell of Alvania tenera (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. tenera |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania tenera (Philippi, 1844) | |
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Alvania tenera is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 1.6 mm and 3 mm.
The thin shell is pellucid and brownish white. it contains 5 whorls, with a deep suture, and strong spiral ridges, of which there are 9-10 on the body whorl. The wider interstices are slightly longitudinally striated. The outer lip is simple and dentate by the ridges.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Western and Central Mediterranean Sea.
References
- Alvania tenera (Philippi, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania tenera (Philippi, 1844). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141249 on 9 August 2010 .
- G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
External links
- Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28
- 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
- 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 tenera | |