Alvania bounteyensis
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| Alvania bounteyensis | |
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| Shell of Alvania bounteyensis (specimen at the Museum of New Zealand) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. bounteyensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania bounteyensis (Dell, 1950) | |
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Alvania bounteyensis is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 2.15 mm (0.085 in), its diameter 1.2 mm (0.047 in).[citation needed]