Alvania transiens

Alvania transiens
Shell of Alvania transiens (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	†A. transiens
Binomial name
†Alvania transiens Sacco, 1895
Synonyms
† Alvania (Acinopsis) sculpta var. transiens Sacco, 1895 † Alvania danubiensis Cossmann & Peyrot, 1919 (junior synonym)

Alvania transiens is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

Status

From its original source (Sacco, 1895: 27) this is a nomen nudum, however, it has been treated as a valid species.

Distribution

Fossils of this species were found in Miocene strata in Austria.

References

• Cossmann (M.) & Peyrot (A.), 1919 - Conchologie néogènique de l'Aquitaine. Extraits des Actes de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux. Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie des Sciences, Arts et Belles-Lettres de Bordeaux, t. 3, vol. 2, p. 385-695
• Landau, B. M., Harzhauser, M., İslamoğlu, Y. & da Silva, C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research. 11-13: 1–584.

External links

• Sacco, F. (1895). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XVIII. (Melaniidae, Littorinidae, Fossaridae, Rissoidae, Hydrobiidae, Paludinidae e Valvatidae). Torino: Carlo Clausen. 51 pp., 1 pl
• Cossmann, M.; Peyrot, A. (1918-1919). Conchologie néogénique de l'Aquitaine. Actes de la Société linnéenne de Bordeaux. 70(1): 5-100 (1918); 70(2): 101-180, pl. 1-9 (1918); 70(3): 181-356, pls 11-17 (1919); 70(4): 357-491 (1919).
• Kovács, Z.; Stein, G. (2023). Middle Miocene Rissooidea (Caenogastropoda) of Letkés (Hungary). Földtani Közlöny. 153(1): 19-34

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