Alvania critica is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
| Alvania critica | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | †A. critica
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania critica O. Boettger, 1907
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| Synonyms | |
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† Alvania helenae var. critica O. Boettger, 1907 (basionym) | |
Description edit
The length of the shell attains 2.5 mm, its diameter 1.5 mm.
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Distribution edit
Fossils were found in the Miocene strata in Central Europe, Greece and Turkey.
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania critica O. Boettger, 1907 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341514 on 2024-02-11
- Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.
External links edit
- Boettger, O. (1907). Zur Kenntnis der Fauna der mittelmiocänen Schichten von Kostej im Krassó–Szörényer Komitat (Gasteropoden und Anneliden). III. Verhandlungen und Mitteilungen des Siebenbürgischen Vereins für Naturwissenschaften zu Hermannstadt. 55 (1905): 101-244. Hermannstadt
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - Thivaiou D., Harzhauser M. & Koskeridou E. (2019). Early Miocene gastropods from the Felli section (Proto-Mediterranean Sea, NW Greece). Geodiversitas. 41(8): 323-366.
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