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

Alvania rudis
Shell of Alvania rudis (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. rudis
Binomial name
Alvania rudis
(Philippi, 1844)
Synonyms
  • Alvania rudis hyperrudis Oberling, 1970
  • Rissoa rudis R. A. Philippi, 1844 superseded combination
  • Turboella (Thapsiella) rudis (R. A. Philippi, 1844) superseded combination

Description

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The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.

Distribution

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This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.

References

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  1. ^ Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania rudis (Philippi, 1844). 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=141232 on 9 August 2010 .
  • Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen. 1: 1-7.
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