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Alvania areolata (Stimpson, 1851) 
AphiaID: 157987

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Rissooidea (Superfamily) > Rissoidae (Family) > Rissoinae (Subfamily) > Alvania (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Tachyrhynchus reticulatus (Mighels & Adams, 1842)
Rank Species
Parent Alvania Risso, 1826
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details]

basis of record: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: maximum size of 3.5 mm [details]

Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence to off Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157987
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2005-05-24 16:52:44Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Alvania areolata (Stimpson, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157987 on 2013-05-20
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