Alvania colossophilus
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| image_caption = Shell of Alvania colossophilus (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
| taxon = Alvania colossophilus
| authority = Oberling, 1970
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| synonyms = Alvania karpathoensis F. Nordsieck, 1972
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Alvania colossophilus is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141172|Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania colossophilus Oberling, 1970. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at
Description
The length of the shell attains 3.7 mm, its diameter 2.2 mm.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, in the Aegean Sea and off the Turkish coast.
References
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- Oberling, J.-J. (1970). Quelques espèces nouvelles de Gastropodes du bassin Méditerranéen. Naturhistorisches Museum Bern. Kleine Mitteilungen. 1: 1-7.
- Nordsieck, F. (1972). Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp.
External links
- [https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04566.14A Bitlis B. & Öztürk B. (2017). The genus Alvania (Gastropoda: Rissoidae) along the Turkish Aegean coast with the description of a new species. Scientia Marina. 81(3): 395-411]
- [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]
- [https://www.marinespecies.org/malacopics/photogallery.php?album=3520&pic=56504 Malacopics Photogallery: image]
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Category:Gastropods described in 1970
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