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

Alvania formicarum
Shell of Alvania formicarum (paratype at MNHN, Paris)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. formicarum
Binomial name
Alvania formicarum
Gofas, 1989

Description

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The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm.

Distribution

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They are typically found on the east coast of the Formigas Islets[2] in the Azores[3]

References

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  1. ^ Alvania formicarum Gofas, 1989. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania formicarum Gofas, 1989. 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=141188 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Alvania formicarum Gofas, 1989".
  3. ^ "Alvania formicarum Gofas, 1989". Archived from the original on 2017-02-26. Retrieved 2017-02-26.
  • Gofas S. (1989). Two new species of Alvania (Rissoidae) from the Azores. Publicações Ocasionais da Sociedade Portuguesa de Malacologia 14: 39-42, 15 fig

page(s): 40-41; pl., fig, 9-14

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