Alvania curta is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]
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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. curta
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| Binomial name | |
| †Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837)
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- Subgenus
- † Alvania curta var. mioelongata Peyrot, 1938
- † Alvania curta nieheimensis Hinsch, 1972: accepted as † Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) (within the variability of the nominate)
- † Alvania curta rarecostata Friedberg, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)
Distribution edit
Fossils of this species were in Lower Oligocene strata near Mérignac, France and in Upper Tortonian strata near Vienna, Austria.
References edit
- ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872790 on 2024-02-08
- Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49(1): 111–134.
External links edit
- Dujardin, F. (1837). Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine, et description des coquilles de la craie et des faluns. Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 2(2): 211–311, pls 15-21
- 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
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