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Alvania transiens

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Species of gastropod

Alvania transiens
Shell of Alvania transiens (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species: A. transiens
Binomial name
Alvania transiens
Sacco, 1895
Synonyms
  • Alvania (Acinopsis) sculpta var. transiens Sacco, 1895
  • Alvania danubiensis Cossmann & Peyrot, 1919 (junior synonym)

Alvania transiens is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Status

From its original source (Sacco, 1895: 27) this is a nomen nudum, however, it has been treated as a valid species.

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in Austria.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania transiens Sacco, 1895 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=990654 on 2024-02-15
  • Cossmann (M.) & Peyrot (A.), 1919 - Conchologie néogènique de l'Aquitaine. Extraits des Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Bordeaux, t. 3, vol. 2, p. 385-695
  • Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.

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Taxon identifiers
Alvania transiens


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