Alvania prusi is a species of small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Alvania prusi (P. Fischer, 1877). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=874807 on 2024-01-28
Description The length of the shell attains 5 mm, its diameter is 3.5 mm.
(Original description in Latin) The shell is imperforate, rather thick, and ovate-acuminate. It consists of six slightly convex whorls, which are finely reticulated and marked by minute punctate impressions.
The body whorl is ventricose and bears faint spiral lines composed of small punctate impressions. The basal grooves are distinct and more widely spaced. The aperture is ovate and slightly exceeds half the total shell length.
The peristome is thick, externally thickened, and bordered. The columella is rather stout and curved. Fischer, P. (1877). Diagnoses Molluscorum in stratis fossiliferis insulae Rhodi jacentium. Journal de Conchyliologie. 25: 78-81
Distribution This species occurs in the Mediterranean Sea.
Fossils were found on the island of Rhodes.
References
External links Garilli V. 2008. On some Neogene to Recent species related to Galeodina Monterosato, 1884, Galeodinopsis Sacco, 1895, and Massotia Bucquoy, Dautzenberg, and Dollfus, 1884 (Caenogastropoda: Rissoidae) with the description of two new Alvania species from the Mediterranean Pleistocene. The Nautilus, 122(1): 19–51