Alvania elegantissima
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| Alvania elegantissima | |
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| Shell of Alvania elegantissima | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. elegantissima |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania elegantissima (Monterosato, 1875) | |
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Alvania elegantissima is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 1.6 mm.
(Described as Rissoa abyssicola var. obtusa Jeffreys, 1870) Shell regularly oval, with a shorter spire and a less oblique outline, compared to Alvania testae (Aradas & Maggiore, 1844) [2]
The whorls and the protoconch are convex without sculpture.
