Alvania salebrosa
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| Alvania salebrosa | |
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| Drawing of a shell of Alvania salebrosa (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. salebrosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania salebrosa Frauenfeld, 1867 | |
Alvania salebrosa is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
The length of the shell attains 2.6 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
The thick, somewhat shining, brownish shell is depressed conical. It shows 10-12 strong, close, rounded ribs, subnodose at the suture, and on the angulated periphery of the body whorl. The shell contains 5½ flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing.[2]
