Alvania cimex — The Life Data

Animalia/Mollusca/Gastropoda/Littorinimorpha/Rissoidae/Alvania

At a glance

Occurrence records648

Data sources7

Biological traits2

DNA specimens3

eDNA detections0

Sources7 archives

Databases and archives Alvania cimex's data was compiled from.

WikipediaWikimedia Foundation3 languages↗

BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility398 records↗

OBISOcean Biodiversity Information System250 records↗

BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics3 specimens↗

Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗

Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗

On this page4 sections

Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.

NarrativeWikipediaarticle

Traits & measurements1 literature sources2 traits

Occurrence & distributionGBIF · OBIS648 records

DNA & barcodingBOLD3 specimens

01Narrative

Alvania cimex is a species of minute sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.

No narrative description available for this taxon yet.

02Traits & measurements

SourcesSeaLifeBase

Habitat & environment2

Habitat saltwateryes

Habitat zonebenthic

05DNA & barcoding3 specimens

A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Alvania cimex has left across the world's sequence archives.

At a glance

DNA specimens3

Countries1

08Occurrence & distribution

Record type648 records

Wild obs. + sensor348

Museum / vouchered210

Other90

Origin

Native4

Range

Area of Occupancy AOO996 km²

Depth

0–200 m sunlit165

200–1000 m twilight0

1–4 km midnight0

>4 km abyssal0

median 27.5 m · max 54.9 m · 165 records with depth

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

Coordinate accuracy85% within 1 km

≤100 m 89≤1 km 28≤10 km 15>10 km 5

137 georeferenced · 211 without coordinates

Open the mapobservation + sensor348

Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence

Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.

Coordinate accuracy33% within 1 km

≤100 m 3≤1 km 39≤10 km 40>10 km 45

127 georeferenced · 83 without coordinates

Open the institutions mapphysical evidence210

Wildobservation + sensor

Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.

10Collections & institutions

Holding institutions12 of 19 geolocated

Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.

Institution	Specimens
Cambridge, US	33
Santa Barbara Museum of Natural Historylocation not on record	28
Natural History Museum Rotterdamlocation not on record	25
Barcelona, ES	21
Brussels, BE	15
AUTHlocation not on record	11
RBINS-Scientific Heritagelocation not on record	9
Israel Oceanographic & Limnological Research, Ltd. The National Institute of Oceanographylocation not on record	6
Salzburg, AT	4
Paris, FR	4
Philadelphia, US	4
Provincia di Livornolocation not on record	4
Denver, US	2
Helsinki, FI	2
Toronto, CA	2
Stockholm, SE	1
Paleontological Research Institutionlocation not on record	1
Ann Arbor, US	1
Frankfurt am Main	1

19 institutions · 174 of 210 vouchered records shown · 4 without an institution code