Alvania salebrosa is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania salebrosa Frauenfeld, 1867. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=865801 on 2024-01-28
Description The length of the shell attains 2.6 mm, its diameter 1.6 mm.
The thick, somewhat shining, brownish shell is depressed conical. It shows 10-12 strong, close, rounded ribs, subnodose at the suture, and on the angulated periphery of the body whorl. The shell contains 5½ flattened whorls that are rapidly increasing.G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
Distribution This marine species occurs off Sydney, Australia.
References
External links Frauenfeld, G. von. (1867). Mollusken. In: Reise der österreichischen Fregatte Novara um die Erde in den Jahren 1857, 1858, 1859 unter den Befehlen des Commodore B. von Wüllerstorf-Urbair. Zoologischer Theil. Zweiter Band. Dritte Abtheilung. Wien: Karl Gerold's Sohn. 1-16