- Source: Alaba pulchra
Alaba pulchra is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Litiopidae.
Description
(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.
Distribution
This marine species is endemic to Australia and occurs off South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria.
References
Cotton, B.C. (1953). "New Species and Records of Mollusca from South Australia". Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 76: 21–26.
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