Alvania awa

Alvania awa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. awa
Binomial name
Alvania awa Chinzei, 1959

Alvania awa is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Sea of Japan.

References

Bibliography

• Chinzei, K. (1959) Molluscan fauna of the Pliocene Sannohe Group of northeast Honshu, Japan. 1. The faunule of the Kubo Formation. Journal of the Faculty of Science, University of Tokyo, section 2, 12, 103–132, pls. 9–11.
• Hasegawa K. (2014) A review of bathyal Rissoidae in the Sea of Japan and adjacent waters (Gastropoda: Rissooidea). In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna of the Sea of Japan. National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs 44: 75–148.

External links

• Amati, B.; Di Giulio, A.; Oliverio, M. (2023). Shallow-water Rissoidae of the genera Alvania Risso, 1826, Haurakia Iredale, 1915, Parashiela Laseron, 1956, Simulamerelina Ponder, 1985 and Subestea Cotton, 1944 (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Rissooidea) from French Polynesia, with the description of a new deep-water genus. Zoosystema. 45(25): 803-892.