Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Rissooidea Genus Alvania Rank Species | Phylum Mollusca Family Rissoidae Scientific name Alvinia gallinacea | |
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Class Gastropoda
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Littorinimorpha | ||
Alvania gallinacea is a species of minute sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
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Distribution
Original description
Alvania gallinacea was originally discovered and described as Linemera gallinacea by Harold John Finlay in 1930. Finlay's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
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