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Alvania lactea
Alvania lactea is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
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Description
The length of the shell varies between 4 mm and 8 mm. The thin shell is subtranslucid to opaque. It is feebly longitudinally and spirally closely costellate. The color is yellowish white or white. The shell contains 5-6, subconvex whorls with linear suture. The outer lip is scarcely thickened externally.
Range & habitat
This species occurs in the North Sea; also off Morocco and in the Black Sea; in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece. Fossils were found in Pleistocene-Pliocene strata in the Netherlands and Pleistocene strata near Saint-Malo, France.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 482263.