Alvania sculptilis

Alvania sculptilis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species: A. sculptilis
Binomial name
Alvania sculptilis
(Monterosato, 1877)
Synonyms[1]

Rissoa sculptilis Monterosato, 1877 (basionym)

Alvania sculptilis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Taxonomy

There is also the Australian marine species Alvania sculptilis (May, 1920) (synonym and basionym: Merelina sculptilis May, 1920 ),[2] 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.[3]

Distribution

This rare species occurs in European waters (the Mediterranean Sea off Algiers) [4]

References

  1. 1 2 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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
  4. The Nautilus v. 12 1896-1899

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