Alvania subareolata
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
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| taxon = Alvania subareolata
| authority = Monterosato, 1869
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- Alvania trinacriae Oberling, 1970 junior subjective synonym
- Rissoa (Alcidia) ignorata Pallary, 1920 junior subjective synonym
- Rissoa ignorata Pallary, 1920 ·
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Alvania subareolata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.{{WRMS species|141244|Alvania subareolata Monterosato, 1869|||Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania subareolata Monterosato, 1869. 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 varies between 1.8 mm and 3 mm.
The shell is imperforate, translucent and brownish. It is subclathrate by longitudinal riblets crossed by spiral lirae. The shell contains five convex whorls with a deep suture. The columella is arcuate. The basal area is cingulate. The outer lip is thickened externally. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11027383#page/370/mode/1up G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9]
Distribution
This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily, Greece and in the Strait of Gibraltar
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
- Tisselli, M. & Micali, P. (2023). Alvania skylla n. sp. from the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda: Rissoidae). Bollettino Malacologico. 59(2): 156-165.
External links
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60718281 Monterosato, T. A. di. (1869). Testacei nuovi dei mari di Sicilia. Tipografia di Ignazio Mirto, printed for the Author, Palermo, 18 pp.; 1 pl.]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/100432 Pallary, P. (1920). Exploration scientifique du Maroc organisée par la Société de Géographie de Paris et continuée par la Société des Sciences Naturelles du Maroc. Deuxième fascicule. Malacologie. Larose, Rabat et Paris pp. 108. 1(1): map]
- [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://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4477.1.1 Appolloni, M.; Smriglio, C.; Amati, B.; Lugliè, L.; Nofroni, I.; Tringali, L. P.; Mariottini, P.; Oliverio, M. (2018). Catalogue of the primary types of marine molluscan taxa described by Tommaso Allery Di Maria, Marquis of Monterosato, deposited in the Museo Civico di Zoologia, Roma. Zootaxa. 4477(1): 1-138]
- [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]
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