Alvania alboranensis

Alvania alboranensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. alboranensis
Binomial name
Alvania alboranensis
Peñas & Rolán, 2006

Alvania alboranensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusc in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.7 mm. Shell turriculate, spire steeply conical, profile maybe slightly concave, approximately five sharply keeled whorls and aperture oval to polygonal. [2]

Distribution

The marine organism is found in Alborán Island, Spain

References

  1. ↑ Alvania alboranensis Peñas & Rolán, 2006. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania alboranensis Peñas & Rolán, 2006. 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=234151 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ↑ "Species Page". www.rkapeller.eu. Retrieved 2026-04-07.