''Alvania gallinacea'' is a
species of minute
sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...
with an
operculum, a
marine
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gastropod
The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda ().
This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...
mollusk or
micromollusk
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in the family
Rissoidae
Rissoidae is a large family of very small and minute sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Rissooidea and the order Littorinimorpha
Littorinimorpha is a large order of snails, gastropods, consisting pr ...
.
Distribution
*
New Zealand
Original description
''Alvania gallinacea'' was originally discovered and described as ''Linemera gallinacea'' by
Harold John Finlay
Harold John Finlay (22 March 1901 – 7 April 1951) was a New Zealand palaeontologist and conchologist.
Biography
Finlay was born in Comilla, India (now Bangladesh), on 22 March 1901. He was left a paraplegic after contracting poliomyelitis at ...
in 1930.
Finlay's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References
This article incorporates
public domain text coming from New Zealand from reference.
[ Finlay H. J. 1930]
''Additions to the Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. No. 3.''
Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Volume 61,
page 222
247.
External links
* http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?speciesid=619&species=Alvinia%20(Linemera)%20gallinacea
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Rissoidae
Gastropods described in 1930
Taxa named by Harold John Finlay