Alvania jeffreysi

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

Alvania jeffreysi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Rissoidae
Genus: Alvania
Species:
A. jeffreysi
Binomial name
Alvania jeffreysi
(Waller, 1864)
Synonyms[1]

Onoba jeffrejsii
Onoba jeffreysi (Waller, 1864)

Description

The species was described from a specimen found in sand dredged north of Unst, Shetland Islands, Scotland from a depth of 85 fathoms (155 m). It was named in honour of conchologist and malacologist John Gwyn Jeffreys.[2]

The maximum recorded shell length is 2.3 mm.[3]

Habitat

Minimum recorded depth is 264 m.[3] Maximum recorded depth is 264 m.[3]

References
  1. Alvania jeffreysi (Waller, 1864). Gofas, S. (2009). Alvania jeffreysi (Waller, 1864). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141200 on 9 August 2010 .
  2. Waller, E. (1864). "On a new British species of Rissoa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3. 14: 136–138. doi:10.1080/00222936408681672. Retrieved 13 May 2016.
  3. Welch J. J. (2010). "The "Island Rule" and Deep-Sea Gastropods: Re-Examining the Evidence". PLoS ONE 5(1): e8776. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0008776.


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