Milk-White Risso

Alvania lactea

• Group: Other
• Typical depth: to 200 m

This tiny sea snail measures only a few millimetres and lives in the shallow subtidal, from the low tide mark down to about 200 metres. Like other risso snails it grazes the film of algae and detritus coating rocks and weed.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Littorinimorpha › Rissoidae › Alvania

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 141203.