Alvania awamoaensis | |
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Shell of Alvania awamoaensis (holotype) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | †A. awamoaensis
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Binomial name | |
†Alvania awamoaensis (H. J. Finlay, 1924)
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Alvania awamoaensis is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
The length of the shell attains 2.1 mm, its diameter 1.1 mm.
Fossils of this species were found in Tertiary strata on Awamoa, North Otago, New Zealand