Alvania microstriata

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| image_caption = Shell of Alvania microstriata (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)

| taxon = Alvania microstriata

| authority = (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998){{WRMS source|41445|Hoenselaar H.J. & Goud J. (1998). The Rissoidae of the CANCAP expeditions, I: the genus Alvania Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Basteria 62: 69-115|08/09/10}}

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Alvania microstriata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141214|Alvania microstriata (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998)|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania microstriata (Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998). 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=141214 on 9 August 2010}}

Description

The length of the shell varies between 1.4 mm and 2 mm.

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Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Madeira.

References

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  • Gofas S. (2007). Rissoidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from northeast Atlantic seamounts. Journal of Natural History 41(13–16): 779–885