• Source: Alvania abrupta

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




Description


The length of the shell attains 2 mm, its diameter 1.4 mm.




Distribution


This species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs at the Taiaroa Canyon, off Otago Peninsula




References



Dell, R. K. (1956). The archibenthal Mollusca of New Zealand. Dominion Museum Bulletin. 18: 1–235.
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,




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