Alvania fasciata
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| Alvania fasciata | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. fasciata |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania fasciata (Tenison Woods, 1876) | |
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Alvania fasciata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
The length of the shell varies between 3.5 mm and 4 mm, its diameter is 2 mm.
(Original description) The minute shell is turretted, latticed all over. It is translucent and touched with pale yellow. It contains six convex whorls, bicarinate and beautifully cancellate, with a few elevated, shining, spiral and transverse lirae. The outer lip is simple. The columel!a is arcuate.[2]
