Alvania tenhovei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. tenhovei
Binomial name
Alvania tenhovei Hoenselaar & Goud, 1998

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

Description [ edit ]

The length of the shell varies between 1.4 mm and 2 mm.

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Distribution [ edit ]

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Cape Verde

References [ edit ]

• Rolan E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp.

External links [ edit ]

• Hoenselaar H.J. & Goud J. (1998). The Rissoidae of the CANCAP expeditions, I: the genus Alvania Risso, 1826 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Basteria. 62(1-2): 69-115