Alvania simulans

Alvania simulans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species: A. simulans
Binomial name
Alvania simulans
Locard, 1886

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

Description

Alvania simulans has a small (1.5-2mm) shell that is pearly white in color, and partially translucent.[2]

Distribution

Alvania simulans is found in the North Atlantic and European waters.[3]

References

  1. Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. 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=141238 on 9 August 2010.
  2. http://www.gastropods.com/5/Shell_42845.shtml
  3. Gofas, S. (2015). Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. In: MolluscaBase (2015).

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