Alaba monile | |
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Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Litiopidae |
Genus: | Alaba |
Species: | A. monile
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Binomial name | |
Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862
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Synonyms | |
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Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae. [1]
(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]
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia
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Alaba monile | |
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Shell of Alaba monile (specimen at the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery) | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Family: | Litiopidae |
Genus: | Alaba |
Species: | A. monile
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Binomial name | |
Alaba monile A. Adams, 1862
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Synonyms | |
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Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae. [1]
(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]
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia
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link){{
cite journal}}
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link)