Alaba monile explained

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.^[1]

Distribution

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

Further reading

• Book: Thiele . J. . Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905 . 1930 . Gustav Fischer . Jena . 56596 . 5. 8.
• Book: Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. . Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan . 1999 . Elle Scientific Publications . Yao, Japan . 1–749.
• Brazier . J. . Trochidae and other genera of South Australia, with their synonyms. . Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia . 1887 . 9 . 116–125.
• Tate, R. & May, W.L. . A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania . Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales . 1901 . 26 . 3 . 344–471.
• Book: Wilson . B. . Australian Marine Shells, Prosobranch, Gastropods . 1993 . Odyssey Publishing . Kallaroo, Western Australia . 1–408 . 1.

External links

• Tenison-Woods . J.E. . Descriptions of new Tasmanian shells . Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania . 1876 . 134–162 . 7 July 2024.
• Tenison Woods . J.E. . On some new Tasmanian marine shells. (Second series) . Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania . 1877 . 131–159 . 7 July 2024.
• Web site: Alaba monile . Seashells of New South Wales . 7 July 2024.

Notes and References

1. Adams . A. . 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. 1862 . 3 . 10 (58) . 293–299 . 6 July 2024.