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Alvania gradatoides

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Alvania gradatoides
Shell of Alvania gradatoides (specimen at the Auckland Museum)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. gradatoides
Binomial name
Alvania gradatoides
(Finlay, 1930)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Alvania (Linemera) gradatoides (H. J. Finlay, 1930) alternate representation
  • Alvinia (Linemera) gradatoides (Finlay, 1930)
  • Linemera gradatoides Finlay, 1930

Alvania gradatoides is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rissoidae.[2]

Distribution

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Description

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The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.

Alvania gradatoides was originally discovered and described as Linemera gradatoides by Harold John Finlay in 1930.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Finlay H. J. (1930). "Additions to the Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. No. 3." Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 61: page 222-247.
  2. ^ a b Bouchet, P. (2011). Alvania gradatoides (Finlay, 1930). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565212 on 2012-07-25
  • Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland
  • Ponder, W.F. 1985 A review of the genera of the Rissoidae (Mollusca: Mesogastropoda: Rissoacea), Records of the Australian Museum (
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
  • Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
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