Alaba monile

Alaba monile
Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
Scientific 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

(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

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

References

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. 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.
• 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.
• 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.