Alaba monile


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

Description

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