Alvania gallinacea is a species of small sea snail with an operculum, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Rissoidae.
Distribution
• This marine species is endemic to New Zealand and occurs off Northland offshore Islands. == Original description ==
Original description
Alvania gallinacea was originally discovered and described as Linemera gallinacea by Harold John Finlay in 1930. Finlay's original text (the type description) reads as follows: ==References==