Alvania gallinacea is a species of small sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Alvania gallinacea (H. J. Finlay, 1930). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565209 on 2023-12-27
Distribution This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland offshore Islands.
Original description Alvania gallinacea was originally discovered and described as Linemera gallinacea by Harold John Finlay in 1930. Finlay's original text (the type description) reads as follows:
References This article incorporates public domain text coming from New Zealand from reference.Finlay H. J. 1930. Additions to the Recent Molluscan Fauna of New Zealand. No. 3. Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand. Volume 61, page 222-247.
Powell, A.W.B. 1979 New Zealand Mollusca: Marine, Land and Freshwater Shells, Collins, Auckland Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
External links http://www.mollusca.co.nz/speciesdetail.php?speciesid=619&species=Alvinia%20(Linemera)%20gallinacea