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Alaba monile

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Alaba monile
Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Litiopidae
Genus: Alaba
Species:
A. monile
Binomial name
Alaba monile
A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms
  • Alaba monile isidis (Thiele, 1930)
  • Alaba pagodula A. Adams, 1862
  • Alaba phasianella Angas, 1867
  • Diala monile A. Adams, 1862
  • Diala monile isidis Thiele, 1930 (junior synonym)
  • Diala tesselata Tenison Woods, 1876 junior subjective synonym
  • Rissoina stclarae Tenison Woods, 1877 ·

Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.[1]

Description

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(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. [2]

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia

References

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  1. ^ Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862. 2024-07-06. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ 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. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

Further reading

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  • 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.
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