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

Alvania lactea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. lactea
Binomial name
Alvania lactea
(Michaud, 1832)
Synonyms
  • Massotia dajerleini Monterosato, 1889
  • Massotia lactea (Michaud, 1830) superseded combination
  • Massotia textilis (R. A. Philippi, 1844) sensu V. Anistratenko, 1995 misapplication (probable misidentification)
  • Rissoa lactea Michaud, 1830 (original combination)
  • Alvania (Massotia) lactea Michaud, 1830

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.

The thin shell is subtranslucid to opaque. It is feebly longitudinally and spirally closely costellate. The color is yellowish white or white. The shell contains 5-6, subconvex whorls with linear suture. The outer lip is scarcely thickened externally. [2]

Distribution

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This species occurs in the North Sea; also off Morocco and in the Black Sea; in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece.

Fossils were found in Pleistocene-Pliocene strata in the Netherlands and Pleistocene strata near Saint-Malo, France.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141203 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. ^ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9   This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
  • Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp
  • Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
  • (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of aggregate extraction activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea
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