Alvania campta
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- Rissoa (Cingula) campta Dall, 1927 (basionym)
- Rissoa campta Dall, 1927 (Alvania accepted as genus)
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Alvania campta is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania campta (Dall, 1927). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532368 on 2024-01-17
Description
The length of the shell attains 4 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
(Original description) The small shell is translucent white and slender. It has a glassy protoconch of about two whorls and four subsequent well-rounded whorls, separated by a deep suture. The axial sculpture consists of numerous minute close-set vertical riblets, hardly visible without a lens, crossed by microscopic spiral striae over the whole surface. The base is rounded and imperforate. The lips are simple, not meeting over the body. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15670453 Dall, W. H. (1927). Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United states by the United States Fisheries Steamer "Albatross", in 1885 and 1886. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 70(2667): 1-134] {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Georgia, USA.
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