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Alaba pulchra

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Alaba pulchra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Litiopidae
Genus: Alaba
Species:
A. pulchra
Binomial name
Alaba pulchra
A. Adams, 1862
Synonyms

Alaba coma Cotton, 1953

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

Description

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(Original description in Latin) The thin shell is ovate-conical. It is semi-opaque, with a dirty white base color adorned with spots, dots, longitudinal flames, and transverse red lines. It has 7 flat, overlapping whorls that are nodosely plicate at the sutures. The aperture is ovate, with a thin, arched outer lip that is not truncated, and a simple, sharp inner lip. [2]

Distribution

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This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Alaba pulchra A. Adams, 1862. 2024-07-06. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Adams, A. (1862). "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. 3 (10 (58)): 293–299. Retrieved 6 July 2024. Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  3. ^ "Alaba pulchra". Australian Faunal Directory. Australian Government.
  • Cotton, B.C. (1953). "New Species and Records of Mollusca from South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 76: 21–26.