Alvania carinata
Shell of Alvania carinata (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Rissooidea
Family:	Rissoidae
Genus:	Alvania
Species:	A. carinata
Binomial name
Alvania carinata (da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms
Alvania russinoniaca Locard, 1886 Galeodina carinata (da Costa, 1778) superseded combination Galeodina striatula (da Costa, 1778) Galeodina striatula var. minorecarinata Monterosato, 1884 Rissoa (Galeodina) carinata (da Costa, 1778) Rissoa (Galeodina) carinata var. ecarinata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 † Rissoa labiata R. A. Philippi, 1836 junior subjective synonym Rissoa striatula (Montagu, 1803) Rissoa trochlea Michaud, 1830 Turbo carinatus da Costa, 1778 Turbo monilis W. Turton, 1819 Turbo striatulus da Costa, 1778 Turbo striatulus Montagu, 1803

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

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.^[2]

This species occurs in the Arctic Ocean, northeast Atlantic Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea (France, Greece, Turkey)

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