Alvania gradatoides | |
---|---|
Shell of Alvania gradatoides (specimen at the Auckland Museum) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Littorinimorpha |
Superfamily: | Rissooidea |
Family: | Rissoidae |
Genus: | Alvania |
Species: | A. gradatoides
|
Binomial name | |
Alvania gradatoides | |
Synonyms [2] | |
|
Alvania gradatoides is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Rissoidae. [2]
The length of the shell attains 3 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
Alvania gradatoides was originally discovered and described as Linemera gradatoides by Harold John Finlay in 1930. [1]