| Alvania schwartziana | |
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| Shell of Alvania schwartziana (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Family: | Rissoidae |
| Genus: | Alvania |
| Species: | A. schwartziana |
| Binomial name | |
| Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866 | |
Alvania schwartziana is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
The specific name schwartziana is in honor of Gustav Franziskus Maria Schwartz von Mohrenstern.
Description
The length of the shell attains 3.8 mm.
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Adriatic Sea off Croatia; also off Greece.
References
- ^ (in Italian) Brusina S. (1866). "Contribuzione pella fauna dei molluschi dalmati". Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-königlichen Zoologisch-botanisch Gesellschaft in Wien 16: 1-134. page 25-26.
- Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866. Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania schwartziana Brusina, 1866. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141234 on 9 August 2010 .
External links
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