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

Alvania elegantissima
Shell of Alvania elegantissima
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. elegantissima
Binomial name
Alvania elegantissima
(Monterosato, 1875)
Synonyms
  • Alvania dilecta Gaglini, 1991 ·
  • Rissoa abyssicola var. obtusa Jeffreys, 1870
  • Rissoa elegantissima Monterosato, 1875
  • Turbona elegantissima (Monterosato, 1875) ·

Description

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The length of the shell attains 1.6 mm.

(Described as Rissoa abyssicola var. obtusa Jeffreys, 1870) Shell regularly oval, with a shorter spire and a less oblique outline, compared to Alvania testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844) [2]

The whorls and the protoconch are convex without sculpture.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea and in the Tyrrhenian Sea at depths between 300 m and 400 m.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania elegantissima (Monterosato, 1875). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania elegantissima (Monterosato, 1875). 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=141185 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ^ Jeffreys J.G. (1870). Mediterranean Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 6: 65-86
  • Gaglini A. (1991). Seconde spigolature... Monterosatiane. Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 13: 1-22
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