Alvania colossophilus
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| Alvania colossophilus | |
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| Shell of Alvania colossophilus (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. colossophilus |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972 | |
Alvania colossophilus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 3.7 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.