Alvania lamellata

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Alvania lamellata
Shell of Alvania lamellata (juvenile specimen) (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. lamellata
Binomial name
Alvania lamellata
Dautzenberg, 1889

Alvania lamellata is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Description

The length of the shell attains 2 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Azores.

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