Alvania beanii

Alvania beanii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species: A. beanii
Binomial name
Alvania beanii
(Hanley in Thorpe, 1844)

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

Distribution

This species is distributed in European waters, from the North Coast of Norway and the North East Atlantic Ocean down to the Canary Islands. It can also be found in the Mediterranean Sea.

References

  1. Alvania beanii (Hanley in Thorpe, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania beanii (Hanley in Thorpe, 1844). 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=416615 on 27 October 2010.

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