Turbonilla alvheimi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Heterobranchia |
Family: | Pyramidellidae |
Genus: | Turbonilla |
Species: | T. alvheimi
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Binomial name | |
Turbonilla alvheimi Lygre & Schander, 2010
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Turbonilla alvheimi is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pyramidellidae, the pyrams and their allies. [2] The species is named after Oddgeir Alvheim, a senior technician at the EAF-Nansen Programme who studied marine fauna off the coast of Africa. [3]
This species lives in the Gulf of Guinea, West Africa.
The Turbonilla alvheimi has a tall, hard, milky-white cone-shaped shell, with a pointy top.