| Alaba monile | |
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| Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Litiopidae |
| Genus: | Alaba |
| Species: | A. monile |
| Binomial name | |
| Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862 | |
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Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.
Description
(Original description in Latin) The shell is elongate-conical. It is white, ornamented with a row of red spots arranged in necklace-like series in the middle of the whorls. It has 6 flat, overlapping whorls with longitudinal nodose folds. The aperture is ovate, with a regularly arched outer lip and an inner lip edge that is subtly angulated in the middle. The shell lacks a siphonal canal.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia
References
- Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862. 2024-07-06. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- Adams, A. (1862). "On the animal and affinities of the genus Alaba, with a review of the known species, and descriptions of some new species". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 3 (10 (58)): 293–299. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
Further reading
- Thiele, J. (1930). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905 (5. 8 ed.). Jena: Gustav Fischer. p. 56596.
- Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. (1999). Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan. Yao, Japan: Elle Scientific Publications. pp. 1–749.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Brazier, J. (1887). "Trochidae and other genera of South Australia, with their synonyms". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 9: 116–125.
- Tate, R. & May, W.L. (1901). "A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 26 (3): 344–471.
{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - Wilson, B. (1993). Australian Marine Shells, Prosobranch, Gastropods (1 ed.). Kallaroo, Western Australia: Odyssey Publishing. pp. 1–408.
External links
- Tenison-Woods, J.E. (1876). "Descriptions of new Tasmanian shells". Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 134–162. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- Tenison Woods, J.E. (1877). "On some new Tasmanian marine shells. (Second series)". Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania: 131–159. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
- "Alaba monile". Seashells of New South Wales. Retrieved 7 July 2024.
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| Alaba monile | |