Alvania curta

Alvania curta
	Shell of Alvania curta (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. curta
Binomial name
	†Alvania curta; (Dujardin, 1837)
Synonyms
	† Alvania (Arsenia) curta (Dujardin, 1837); † Alvania curta nieheimensis Hinsch, 1972 (within the variability of the nominate); † Rissoa curta Dujardin, 1837 (Alvania accepted as full genus);

Alvania curta is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.^[1]

Subgenus:

† Alvania curta var. mioelongata Peyrot, 1938
† Alvania curta nieheimensis Hinsch, 1972: accepted as † Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) (within the variability of the nominate)
† Alvania curta rarecostata Friedberg, 1923 (taxon inquirendum)

Distribution

Fossils of this species were in Lower Oligocene strata near Mérignac, Gironde,^[2] France and in Upper Tortonian strata near Vienna, Austria.

^ MolluscaBase eds. (2024). "Alvania curta (Dujardin, 1837) †". MolluscaBase. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species WoRMS at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872790 on 2024-02-08
^ Glibert, Maxime (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (PDF). Mémoires deuxiéme série, fascicule 69 (in French). Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique. p. 54. Première partie Part 1 – Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus).

Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). "Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 49 (1): 111–134.

Dujardin, F. (1837). "Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine, et description des coquilles de la craie et des faluns". Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France. 2 (2): 211–311, pls 15–21.

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