Alaba monile
Species of gastropod
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Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.[1]
| Alaba monile | |
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| Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | incertae sedis |
| Family: | Litiopidae |
| Genus: | Alaba |
| Species: | A. monile |
| Binomial name | |
| Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862 | |
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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
