Alaba monile
{{Short description|Species of gastropod}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}}
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| image = Alaba monile 001.jpg
| image_caption = Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
| taxon = Alaba monile
| authority = A. Adams, 1862
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| 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 ·
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Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.{{WRMS species|754060|Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862|2024-07-06}}
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
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Thiele |first1=J. |title=Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Ergebnisse der Hamburger südwest-australischen Forschungsreise 1905 |date=1930 |publisher=Gustav Fischer |location=Jena |pages=56596 |edition=5. 8}}
- {{cite book |last1=Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. |title=Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-Bearing Mollusca of Japan |date=1999 |publisher=Elle Scientific Publications |location=Yao, Japan |pages=1–749}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Brazier |first1=J. |title=Trochidae and other genera of South Australia, with their synonyms. |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia |date=1887 |volume=9 |pages=116–125}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Tate, R. & May, W.L. |title=A revised census of the marine Mollusca of Tasmania |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1901 |volume=26 |issue=3 |pages=344–471}}
- {{cite book |last1=Wilson |first1=B. |title=Australian Marine Shells, Prosobranch, Gastropods |date=1993 |publisher=Odyssey Publishing |location=Kallaroo, Western Australia |pages=1–408 |edition=1}}
External links
- {{cite journal |last1=Tenison-Woods |first1=J.E. |title=Descriptions of new Tasmanian shells |journal=Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania |date=1876 |pages=134–162 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12289117 |access-date=7 July 2024}}
- {{cite journal |last1=Tenison Woods |first1=J.E. |title=On some new Tasmanian marine shells. (Second series) |journal=Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania |date=1877 |pages=131–159 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12289352 |access-date=7 July 2024}}
- {{cite web |title=Alaba monile |url=https://seashellsofnsw.org.au/Litiopidae/Pages/Alaba_monile.htm |website=Seashells of New South Wales |access-date=7 July 2024}}
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