Alvania litoralis

Alvania litoralis
Shell of Alvania litoralis (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. litoralis
Binomial name
Alvania litoralis (Nordsieck, 1972)
Synonyms
† Actonia granulosculpta (L. Seguenza, 1903) (dubious synonym) Alvania gittenbergeri van Aartsen & Menkhorst, 1988 † Alvania granulosculpta (L. Seguenza, 1903) (dubious synonym) Manzonia (Actonia) granulosculpta L. Seguenza, 1903 (dubious synonym) Manzonia granulosculpta L. Seguenza, 1903 (dubious synonym) Turbona elegantissima litoralis F. Nordsieck, 1972

Alvania litoralis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[1]

The shell attains a length of 3 mm.

This species occurs in the Ionian Sea off Cephalonia Island, Greece; also off Turkey.

• Nordsieck, F. (1972). Die europäischen Meeresschnecken (Opisthobranchia mit Pyramidellidae; Rissoacea). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart. XIII + 327 pp.

• van Aartsen, J. J.; Menkhorst, H. P. (1988). European marine Mollusca: notes on less well-known species. 12. Alvania gittenbergeri spec. nov. (Gastropoda, Rissoidae) from the Mediterranean. Basteria. 52 (1-3): 101-104
• Seguenza L. (1903). Rissoidi neogenici della provincia di Messina. Paleeontographica Italica. 9: 35-60, pl. 11
• 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.
• Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references