Genus Alaba H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Museums

Regional Maps

• Alaba Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1853. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts I-VIII) pp. 1-256, pls 1-32. [241].

  Type species:

   Rissoa melanura C.B. Adams by original designation (G. Nevill, 1885, Handlist of Mollusca in the Indian Museum, Calcutta: 181).
• Gibborissoia Cossman, M. in Sacco, F. 1895. I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte 18. Torino : Clausen 51 pp., 1 pl. [34].

  Type species:

   Bulimus costellatus Grateloup, 1827 by original designation.
• Dialessa Iredale, T. 1955. Rissoid Sectional Names. Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1953-1954: 81 [81].

  Type species:

   Diala translucida Hedley by original designation.
• Australaba Laseron, C. 1956. The families Rissoinidae and Rissoidae (Mollusca) from the Solanderian and Damperian zoogeographical provinces. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7(3): 384-484 [459].

  Type species:

   Australaba bowenensis Laseron, 1956 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Houbrick, R.S. 1987. Anatomy of Alaba and Litiopa (Prosobranchia: Litiopidae): Systematic implications. Nautilus 101: 9-18 [14]
• Higo, S., Callomon, P. & Goto, Y. 1999. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan. Japan : Elle Scientific Publications 749 pp. [84-85]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Gibborissoa [error for Gibborissoia Sossmann, 1895]. —
  Cossmann, M. 1921. Essais de Paléoconchologie Comparée. Paris Vol. 12 349 pp. [316] (used the name Gibborissoa [sic] as a subgenus of Alaba)

 

Excluded Taxa

Misidentifications

LITIOPIDAE: Styliferina goniochila A. Adams, 1860 — Adams, A. 1860. On some new genera and species of Mollusca from Japan. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3 6: 331-337 [335]

Alaba goniochila (Adams, 1860) — Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [127] (referred to this name for a species found in Queensland waters)

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General References

Houbrick, R.S. 1987. Anatomy of Alaba and Litiopa (Prosobranchia: Litiopidae): Systematic implications. Nautilus 101: 9-18 [14-16]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [127]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CAENOGASTROPODA	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED	Dr Bryan Lessard
01-Jun-2021	SORBEOCONCHA	26-May-2021	MODIFIED
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED	Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
01-Jun-2021	LITIOPIDAE	01-Jun-2021	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		11-Oct-2011	MODIFIED