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Alvania punctura
Alvania punctura is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
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Description
The length of the shell attains 3 mm. (Original description) The very glossy shell has rounded whorls, rather taper in shape, and finely reticulated. The colour of the shell is transparent yellowish-white. The aperture is sub-orbicular and has a thin lip. The ridges on the body whorl do not extend over the outer lip. The shell has a small umbilical chink. The length of the shell is the tenth of an inch. Its breadth one third its length.
Range & habitat
This species occurs in the Eastern Atlantic, from Norway to the Strait of Gibraltar; intertidal to ca. 100 m depth; rare and rather local in the Western Mediterranean (Corsica, Greece) in 50-200 m. Gorringe Ridge and Ampère Seamount, rare in 265-320 m. It is absent from Baltic Sea and the eastern basin of the English Channel. Fossils have been found in Pleistocene strata on Sicily, Italy.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 482266.