Alvania obliquicostata

Alvania obliquicostata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. obliquicostata
Binomial name
	†Alvania obliquicostata; H. Wang, 1981
Synonyms
	† Alvania (Acinulus) obliquicostatus H.-J. Wang, 1981 (superseded combination); † Alvania obliquicostatus H. Wang, 1981 (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet);

Alvania obliquicostata is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[1]

Distribution edit

Fossils of this species were found in Tertiary strata in the continental shelf of the South China Sea

^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania obliquicostata H. Wang, 1981 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=873718 on 2024-02-15

Wang, H. (1981). Gastropoda. pp. 199–208, plates 99–103. In: Hou, Y. T., 1981. Tertiary palaeontology of north continental shelf of South China Sea. Guangdong: Guangdong Science and Technology Press. 274 pp., 108 plates.