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Alvania subareolata
	Shell of Alvania subareolata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. subareolata
Binomial name
	Alvania subareolata; Monterosato, 1869
Synonyms
	Alvania trinacriae Oberling, 1970 junior subjective synonym; Rissoa (Alcidia) ignorata Pallary, 1920 junior subjective synonym; Rissoa ignorata Pallary, 1920 ·;

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

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. ^[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily, Greece and in the Strait of Gibraltar

References

^ 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 http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141244 on 9 August 2010 .
^ G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9

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.