Alvania dictyophora is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description
The length of the shell varies between 1.5 mm and 3 mm.
The thin shell is hyaline. It is dark brown or fulvous. It has distant thin longitudinal, and stronger, more distant spiral lirae, two of the latter in the penultimate and five in the body whorl; perforate. The outer lip is thin.
Distribution
This species occurs in European waters (off the Azores) and rare in the Mediterranean Sea (off Sicily and Greece).
Fossils were found in Pliocene strata near San Miniato, Italy.
References
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180âÂÂ213
External links
- Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle (Halis Saxorum): Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28
- Seguenza L. (1903). Rissoidi neogenici della provincia di Messina. Paleeontographica Italica. 9: 35-60, pl. 11
- Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae àStiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305
- Amati B. & Smriglio C. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the Alvania dictyophora-complex with the description of Alvania desabatae spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean Sea. Iberus. 34(2): 163-180
- Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references
- Conchology.be: image