Alvania dipacoi | |
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Shell of Alvania dipacoi (specimen at the Natural History Museum, Rotterdam) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | A. dipacoi
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Binomial name | |
Alvania dipacoi Giusti Fr. & Nofroni, 1989
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Alvania dipacoi is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae. [1]
Alvania dipacoi is a small sea snail with a shell of 2-2.6 mm in length. The shell is a spiral shape and generally an off white colour.
It can be found in the Mediterranean sea [2] around the Tuscan Archipelago, and also around the Canary Islands and West Africa ( Mauretania). [3]