{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Speciesbox | image = Alvania curta 001.jpg | image_caption = Shell of ''Alvania curta'' (holotype) | taxon = Alvania curta | authority = (Dujardin, 1837) |extinct=yes | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = * † ''Alvania (Arsenia) curta'' <small>(Dujardin, 1837)</small> * † ''Alvania curta nieheimensis'' <small>Hinsch, 1972</small> (within the variability of the nominate) * † ''Rissoa curta'' <small>Dujardin, 1837</small> (''Alvania'' accepted as full genus) |display_parents= 3 }}
'''''Alvania curta''''' is an extinct species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.<ref name="WoRMS"> MolluscaBase eds. (2024). "''Alvania curta'' (Dujardin, 1837) †". ''MolluscaBase''. Accessed through: ''World Register of Marine Species WoRMS'' at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=872790 on 2024-02-08</ref>
'''Subgenus''': * † ''Alvania curta var. mioelongata'' <small>Peyrot, 1938</small> * † ''Alvania curta nieheimensis'' <small>Hinsch, 1972</small>: accepted as † ''Alvania curta'' <small>(Dujardin, 1837)</small> (within the variability of the nominate) * † ''Alvania curta rarecostata'' <small>Friedberg, 1923</small> (taxon inquirendum)
==Distribution== Fossils of this species were in Lower Oligocene strata near Mérignac, Gironde,{{r|irsn de B}} France and in Upper Tortonian strata near Vienna, Austria.
==References== {{Reflist|refs= <ref name="irsn de B">{{cite book |last1=Glibert |first1=Maxime |title=Les Mesogastropoda fossiles du Cénozoïque étranger des collections de l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique |id=Première partie Part 1 – Cyclophoridae à Stiliferidae (inclus) |date=1962 |publisher=Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/35118095.pdf |series=Mémoires deuxiéme série, fascicule 69 |page=54 |language=fr}}</ref> }}
===Sources=== * Kowalke, T.; Harzhauser, M. (2004). "Early ontogeny and palaeoecology of the Mid-Miocene rissoid gastropods of the Central Paratethys". ''Acta Palaeontologica Polonica''. '''49''' (1): 111–134.
==External links== * Dujardin, F. (1837). [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42371007 "Mémoire sur les couches du sol en Touraine, et description des coquilles de la craie et des faluns".] ''Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France''. '''2''' (2): 211–311, pls 15–21.
{{Taxonbar|from=Q106107828}}
curta Category:Gastropods described in 1837
{{Alvania-stub}} {{paleo-gastropod-stub}}