Alvania cranchiana

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Alvania cranchiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. cranchiana
Binomial name
Alvania cranchiana
Leach, 1852

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

The length of the shell attains 3.17 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is smooth. The suture is moderately deep. The five whorls are very smooth.[2]

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