Alvania hispidula

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Alvania hispidula
Shell of Alvania hispidula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. hispidula
Binomial name
Alvania hispidula
(Monterosato, 1884)
Synonyms
  • Acinus hispidulus Monterosato, 1884
  • Rissoa cancellata R. A. Philippi, 1844 junior homonym
  • Rissoa clathrata R. A. Philippi, 1844 junior homonym (junior homonym of Rissia clathrata Gray, 1826, and R. clathratra Grateloup, 1828)
  • Turbona elegantula F. Nordsieck, 1972 (dubious synonym)
  • Turbona hispidula (Monterosato, 1884)

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

The length of the shell varies between 2.5 mm and 5 mm.

The rather solid, brownish shell is regularly clathrate by longitudinal narrow riblets and numerous spiral lirae. The outer lip is plicate within and externally dentately varicose. The shell contains six moderately convex whorls.[2]

Distribution

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