| Alvania cimicoides | |
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| Shell of Alvania cimicoides | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. cimicoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844)[1] | |
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Alvania cimicoides is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[2]
Description
The length of the shell varies between 3.4 mm and 5 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean off Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the Azores. It is also circumlittoral in the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, Corsica, Turkey).
References
- ↑ Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1843): 130-193. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
- ↑ Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 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=141168 on 9 August 2010 .
- Nordsieck, F. (1974). Molluschi dei fondali della platea continentale fra la Corsica e la Sardegna. La Conchiglia. 61: 11-
- de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.
External links
- Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
- Aradas A. (1847). Descrizione delle conchiglie fossili di Gravitelli presso Messina. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (2) 4: 57-88
- Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28
- Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology.
- Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material
- 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.,
- P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840
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