Alvania sleursi

Alvania sleursi
Shell of Alvania sleursi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. sleursi
Binomial name
Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987)
Synonyms
Manzonia (Alvinia) sleursi Amati, 1987

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

Description

The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 3 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Savage Islands, the Azores and Brazil.

References

1. Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania sleursi (Amati, 1987). 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=141239 on 9 August 2010 .

• Amati B. (1987). Manzonia (Alvinia) sleursi sp.n. (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Notiziario del C.I.S.MA. 10: 25-30
• Ávila, S.P.; Cardigos, F.; Santos, R.S. (2004). D. João de Castro Bank, a shallow water hydrothermal-vent in the Azores: checklist of marine Molluscs. Arquipélago (Ciénc. Biol. Mar./Life Mar. Sci.) 21A: 75-80

External links

• Segers, Willy, Frank Swinnen, and António Domingos Abreu. "An annotated checklist of the marine molluscs from the archipelagos of Madeira and the Selvagens (NE Atlantic Ocean)." (2009).