Alvania cimicoides

Alvania cimicoides
	Shell of Alvania cimicoides
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. cimicoides
Binomial name
	Alvania cimicoides; (Forbes, 1844)
Synonyms
	Alvania (Acinopsis) sculpta (R. A. Philippi, 1844) junior subjective synonym; Alvania (Turbona) sculpta Philippi, 1844; Rissoa cimicoides Forbes, 1844 (original combination); Rissoa cimicoides var. minima Jeffreys, 1867; Rissoa intermedia Aradas, 1847; Rissoa sculpta R. A. Philippi, 1844 junior subjective synonym; Turbona hispidula fuscoapicalis F. Nordsieck, 1974 ·;

Alvania cimicoides is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[2]

Description[edit]

The length of the shell varies between 3.4 mm and 5 mm.

The solid shell is opaque, yellowish or fulvous brown. It is sometimes bifasciate, with rather broad longitudinal riblets, vanishing below, crossed by spiral unduluting lirae, forming intersectional nodules. The shell contains 7-8 whorls, somewhat flattened in the middle, the last dilated. The suture is channeled. The outer lip is varicose.^[3]

Distribution[edit]

This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean off Greenland, in the Atlantic Ocean from Norway to the Azores. It is also circumlittoral in the Mediterranean Sea (Spain, Corsica, Greece, Turkey).

Fossils have been in Pliocene strata in Cotentin, France.

References[edit]

^ Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1843): 130-193. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.
^ Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 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=141168 on 9 August 2010 .
^ G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Nordsieck, F. (1974). Molluschi dei fondali della platea continentale fra la Corsica e la Sardegna. La Conchiglia. 61: 11-
de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom.

External links[edit]

Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114
Aradas A. (1847). Descrizione delle conchiglie fossili di Gravitelli presso Messina. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (2) 4: 57-88
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
Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology.
Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material
Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305
Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.,
P. & Warén A. (1993). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Mesogastropoda. Bollettino Malacologico supplemento 3: 579-840
Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references

[1] Forbes E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1843): 130-193. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 08/09/10.

[WoRMS-2] Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 1844). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania cimicoides (Forbes, 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=141168 on 9 August 2010 .

[3] G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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