Alvania subsoluta is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Description The length of the shell varies between 2 mm and 4 mm.
The thin shell is somewhat solid, white or brownishand opaline. It is rather numerously longitudinally costulate with riblets vanishing on lower part of body whorl. It shows less prominent, close, spiral striae that are stronger at the base. The shell contains five convex whorls, with a deep suture. The aperture is expanded below and externally varicose.G.W. Tryon (1884), Manual of conchology, structural and systematic : with illustrations of the species; Academy of Natural Sciences ser. 1, vol. 9
Distribution This marine species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Iceland to Norway, the Canary Islands and West Africa; in the Mediterranean Sea off Sicily and Greece.
Fossils have been found in Pleistocene strata near Messina, Sicily.
References
Oliverio, M.; Amati, B.; Nofroni, I. (1993). Revision of the Alvania testae group of species. Lavori della Società Italiana di Malacologia. 24: 249-25
External links Aradas A. (1847). Descrizione delle conchiglie fossili di Gravitelli presso Messina. Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali (2) 4: 57-88 Seguenza G. (1873-1877). Studi stratigrafici sulla formazione pliocenica dell'Italia meridionale. Bollettino, Reale Comitato Geologico d'Italia. 4: 29-45, 84-103, 131-153, 213-230, 280-301, 345-357 Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213 Thanasis Manousis, The Marine Mollusca of Greece: an up-to-date, systematic catalogue, documented with bibliographic and pictorial references Glibert, M. (1962). Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. Première partie. Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus). Institut Royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgiques, Mémoires. Deuxième série. 69: 1-305