Alvania prusi

Alvania prusi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Description

The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter 3.5 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea.

Fossils were found on the island of Rhodes.

References

External links

• Fischer, P. (1877). Diagnoses Molluscorum in stratis fossiliferis insulae Rhodi jacentium. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 78-81
• Garilli V. 2008. On some Neogene to Recent species related to Galeodina Monterosato, 1884, Galeodinopsis Sacco, 1895, and Massotia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, and Dollfus, 1884 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) with the description of two new Alvania species from the Mediterranean Pleistocene. The Nautilus, 122(1): 19–51