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Alvania kermadecensis

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Alvania kermadecensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Rissooidea
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. kermadecensis
Binomial name
Alvania kermadecensis
(W. R. B. Oliver, 1915)
Synonyms

Haurakia kermadecensis W. R. B. Oliver, 1915

Alvania kermadecensis is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.[1]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off the Kermadec Islands, New Zealand.

References

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  1. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Alvania kermadecensis (W. R. B. Oliver, 1915). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=598541 on 2023-12-31 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Oliver, W.R.B. 1915 The Mollusca of the Kermadec Islands, Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, 47
  • Brook, F.J., Marshall, B.A. 1998 The coastal molluscan fauna of the northern Kermadec Islands, southwest Pacific Ocean, Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 28
  • Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch
  • Marshall, B. A. (1981). Fossil collections from Raoul Island. Appendix 1. pp 90–91 in Lloyd, E. F. & Nathan, S. Geology and tephrochronology of Raoul Island, Kermadec Group, New Zealand. New Zealand Geological Survey Bulletin 95.
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