Alvania carinata is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description The length of the shell attains 3.4 mm, its diameter 2.6 mm.
(Described as Rissoa striatula) The rather solid shell is opaque and yellowish white. It is thinly longitudinally striate in the interstices between much stronger spiral ridges, which carinate and shoulder the whorls. The aperture is a little dilated below, smooth within, ridged-varicose externally.G.W. Tryon (884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
Distribution This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean, northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (France, Greece, Turkey)
References
Bucquoy, E., Dautzenberg, Ph. & Dollfus, G., 1884 - Gastropodes avec atlas de 66 planches. In : Les mollusques marins du Roussillon, vol. 1, p. 299-342, pls 36–40
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