Alvinia

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Alvinia
Alvinia gradatoides shell.jpg
Alvinia gradatoides
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Alvinia

Monterosato, 1884 [1]
Type species
Alvania weinkauffi Weinkauff, 1868
Synonyms[2]
  • Flemellia Nordsieck, 1972
  • Moniziella Nordsieck, 1972

Alvinia is a genus of minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Rissoidae.[2]

This genus has become a synonym of Alvania Risso, 1826. But it is still considered sometimes as a separate genus. It has been merged with Alvania until a consistent phylogenetic scheme emerges for the whole group.[2]

Species

Species in the genus Alvinia used to include:

References

  1. ^ Monterosato T. A. (di) (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Palermo, Virzi pp. 152 [month of publication unknown, but later than February (the paper in Naturalista Siciliano, cited p. 57); copy in Smithsonian Institution bears manuscript note "after August"]
  2. ^ a b c Gofas, S. (2012). Alvinia Monterosato, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine * At http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574680 on 18 June 2012