Alvania geryonia

Species of sea snail

Alvania geryonia
Shell of Alvania geryonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. geryonia
Binomial name
Alvania geryonia
(Nardo, 1847)
Synonyms

Rissoa geryonia Nardo, 1847

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2.5 mm and 4 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Corsica, France, Tuscany, Italy and Greece; also in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.

References

  1. ^ Alvania geryonia (Nardo, 1847). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania geryonia (Nardo, 1847). 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=141191 on 9 August 2010 .
  • Nardo, G.D. (1847). Sinonimia Moderna delle Specie Regisrate nell'Opera Intitolata: Descrizione de'Crostacei, de'Testacei e de'Pesci che Abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto Rappressentati in Figure, a Chiaro-scuro ed a Colori dall'Abate Stefano Chiereghini Ven. Clodiense. Antonelli: Venezia.
  • Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
  • Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references
Taxon identifiers
Alvania geryonia
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