Alvania punctura
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| taxon = Alvania punctura
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| synonyms =
- Alvania puncturata Locard, 1886 (unjustified emendation)
- Arsenia punctura (Montagu, 1803) superseded combination
- Alvania (Arsenia) punctura Montagu, 1803
- Rissoa punctura (Montagu, 1803)
- Rissoa punctura var. diversa Jeffreys, 1867 ·
- Turbo punctura Montagu, 1803
- Turritella dorvilleana Leach, 1852 junior subjective synonym
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Alvania punctura is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141230|Alvania punctura (Montagu, 1803)|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania punctura (Montagu, 1803). 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 mm.
(Original description) The very glossy shell has rounded whorls, rather taper in shape, and finely reticulated. The colour of the shell is transparent yellowish-white. The aperture is sub-orbicular and has a thin lip. The ridges on the body whorl do not extend over the outer lip. The shell has a small umbilical chink. The length of the shell is the tenth of an inch. Its breadth one third its length. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16.] {{source-attribution}}
Distribution
This species occurs in the Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to the Strait of Gibraltar; intertidal to ca. 100 m depth; rare and rather local in the Western Mediterranean (Corsica, Greece) in 50-200 m. Gorringe Ridge and Ampère Seamount, rare in 265-320 m. It is absent from Baltic Sea and the eastern basin of the English Channel.
Fossils have been found in Pleistocene strata on Sicily, Italy.
References
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External links
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012 Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187 Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 (1862). Vol. 2: pp. 479 (1864). Vol. 3: pp. 394 (1865). Vol. 4: pp. 487 (1867). Vol. 5: pp. 259 (1869). London, van Voorst.]
- [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).]
- [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/49946527 Gofas, S.; Warén A. (1982). Taxonomie de quelque espèces du genre Alvania (Mollusca, Gastropoda) des côtes ibériques et marocaines. Bollettino Malacologico. 18(1-4): 1-16]
- [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://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]
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