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

Alvania moerchi
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. moerchi
Binomial name
Alvania moerchi
(Collin, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Cingula moerchii Collin, 1886
  • Onoba moerchii (Collin, 1886)

Description

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The length of the shell attains 3 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in Arctic waters (Saguenay Fjord; downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary ); also off the Faroes.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania moerchi (Collin, 1886). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania moerchi (Collin, 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=141216 on 9 August 2010 .
  • Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
  • Warén A. (1974). Revision of the Arctic-Atlantic Rissoidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Zoologica Scripta 3: 121-135
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