Alvania monserratensis

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

Alvania monserratensis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. monserratensis
Binomial name
Alvania monserratensis
F. Baker, G. D. Hanna & A. M. Strong, 1930
Synonyms
  • Alvania keeleri Palazzi, 1978
  • Alvinia inconspicua (C. B. Adams, 1852)
  • Alvinia monserratensis F. Baker, G. D. Hanna & A. M. Strong, 1930
  • Rissoa inconspicua C. B. Adams, 1852 (invalid: junior homonym of Rissoa inconspicua Alder, 1844; Alvania keeleri Palazzi, 1978, is a replacement name)

Taxonomy

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This and other Western American species were attributed to Alvinia Monterosato, 1884, following Keen (1971); nevertheless it is not proved to be more related to the Mediterranean type species Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868 than to other Alvania s.l. and is therefore retained in Alvania. [1]

Description

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The length of the shell varies between 1 mm and 2 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs off the Monserate Island, Gulf of California; also off the Galapagos Islands

References

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  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania monserratensis F. Baker, G. D. Hanna & A. M. Strong, 1930. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=564915 on 2024-01-03
  • 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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