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Alvania ziziphina

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Species of gastropod

Alvania ziziphina
Shell of Alvania ziziphina (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species: †A. ziziphina
Binomial name
†Alvania ziziphina
Dollfus, 1949

Alvania ziziphina is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Distribution

Fossils have been found in Pliocene strata in Brittany, France.

References

  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania ziziphina Dollfus, 1949 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1318707 on 2024-02-18
  • Calas, P. (1949). Note préléminaire à une revision des Rissoinidae du Redonien. Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle Série 2. 21: 164–168.
  • Landau B.M., Ceulemans L. & Van Dingenen F. (2018). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 177–368.
Taxon identifiers
Alvania ziziphina


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