Alaba monile

Alaba monile is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.^[1]

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

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