Alvania glabra

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Alvania glabra is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania glabra Leach, 1852. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1699160 on 2024-01-24

Description

The length of the shell attains 3.17 mm.

(Original description) The white shell is smooth. It contains four whorls. They show on the right side a sculptured line. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076 Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp. (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray)]{{source-attribution}}

Distribution

This species occurs in the Plymouth Sound, Great Britain.

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