Alvania lactea
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| taxon = Alvania lactea
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- Massotia dajerleini Monterosato, 1889
- Massotia lactea (Michaud, 1830) superseded combination
- Massotia textilis (R. A. Philippi, 1844) sensu V. Anistratenko, 1995 misapplication (probable misidentification)
- Rissoa lactea Michaud, 1830 (original combination)
- Alvania (Massotia) lactea Michaud, 1830
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Alvania lactea is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141203|Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832)|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania lactea (Michaud, 1832). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at
Description
The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm.
The thin shell is subtranslucid to opaque. It is feebly longitudinally and spirally closely costellate. The color is yellowish white or white. The shell contains 5-6, subconvex whorls with linear suture. The outer lip is scarcely thickened externally. [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 North Sea; also off Morocco and in the Black Sea; in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece.
Fossils were found in Pleistocene-Pliocene strata in the Netherlands and Pleistocene strata near Saint-Malo, France.
References
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- Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
- Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp
- Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
- (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring in function of aggregate extraction activities in the Belgian part of the North Sea
External links
- [http://www.linneenne-lyon.org/depot/3906.pdf Michaud, A. L. G. (1830). Description de plusieurs espèces de coquilles du genre Rissoa. Lyon: Perrin. 19 pp., 1 pl]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16015363 Monterosato, T. A. di. (1889). Coquilles marines marocaines. Journal de Conchyliologie. 37(1): 20-40 (2 May 1889); 37(2): 112-121]
- [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://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35185956 Garilli V. 2008. On some Neogene to Recent species related to Galeodina Monterosato, 1884, Galeodinopsis Sacco, 1895, and Massotia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, and Dollfus, 1884 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) with the description of two new Alvania species from the Mediterranean Pleistocene. The Nautilus, 122(1): 19–51]
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