Alvania cimicoides

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Alvania (Acinopsis) sculpta (R. A. Philippi, 1844) junior subjective synonym
Alvania (Turbona) sculpta Philippi, 1844
Rissoa cimicoides Forbes, 1844 (original combination)
Rissoa cimicoides var. minima Jeffreys, 1867
Rissoa intermedia Aradas, 1847
Rissoa sculpta R. A. Philippi, 1844 junior subjective synonym
Turbona hispidula fuscoapicalis F. Nordsieck, 1974 ·

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Alvania cimicoides is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141168|Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844)|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141168 on 9 August 2010}}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 3.4 mm and 5 mm.

The solid shell is opaque, yellowish or fulvous brown. It is sometimes bifasciate, with rather broad longitudinal riblets, vanishing below, crossed by spiral undulating lirae, forming intersectional nodules. The shell contains 7-8 whorls, somewhat flattened in the middle, the last dilated. The suture is channeled. The outer lip is varicose.[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11027383#page/370/mode/1up G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9] {{source-attribution}}

Distribution

This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean off Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the Azores. It is also circumlittoral in the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, Corsica, Greece, Turkey).

Fossils have been in Pliocene strata in Cotentin, France.

References

Nordsieck, F. (1974). Molluschi dei fondali della platea continentale fra la Corsica e la Sardegna. La Conchiglia. 61: 11-
de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.

External links

[https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1605/5667 Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER, José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114]
[https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7997915 Aradas A. (1847). Descrizione delle conchiglie fossili di Gravitelli presso Messina. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (2) 4: 57-88]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28]
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187 Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology.]
[https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04543.21a Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material]
[https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35118095.pdf Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305]
[http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.],
[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54708230Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840]
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thanasis-Manousis/publication/355370005_The_Marine_Mollusca_of_Greece_an_up-to-date_systematic_catalogue_documented_with_bibliographic_and_pictorial_references/links/616d52c6b90c5126626111b2/The-Marine-Mollusca-of-Greece-an-up-to-date-systematic-catalogue-documented-with-bibliographic-and-pictorial-references.pdf Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references]

cimicoides

Category:Gastropods described in 1844