Alvania weinkauffi
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| Alvania weinkauffi | |
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| Shell of Alvania weinkauffi weinkauffi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. weinkauffi |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868 | |
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Alvania weinkauffi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
- Subspecies
- Alvania weinkauffi jacobusi Oliverio, Amati & Nofroni, 1986
- Alvania weinkauffi weinkauffi (Weinkauff, 1868)
The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 4 mm.
The imperforate shell is thin, subpellucid and a little shining. It is whitish or yellowish. It has a clathrate sculpture by longitudinal riblets, and much stronger, distant spiral ridges. The shell contains six convex, angulated and shouldered whorls with a deeply incised suture. The aperture is smooth within and slightly varicose externally.[2]
