Marine Species Traits - Alabina Dall, 1902

Traits taxon details

Alabina Dall, 1902

AphiaID

565618 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:565618)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Bittiinae Cossmann, 1906

Original name

Alabina Dall, 1902

Synonymised names

Bittium (Elachista) Dall & Bartsch, 1901 † · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Elachista Treitschke, 1833; Alabina is a replacement name

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Species Alabina africana Bartsch, 1915
Species Alabina alfredensis Bartsch, 1915
Species Alabina asperoides (Gabb, 1873) †
Species Alabina californica (Dall & Bartsch, 1901)
Species Alabina effusa (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
Species Alabina excurvata (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
Species Alabina ignati Bartsch, 1911
Species Alabina jordani A. M. Strong, 1938
Species Alabina monicensis Bartsch, 1911 †
Species Alabina strongi Durham, 1950 †
Species Alabina telamon Barnard, 1963
Species Alabina turrita (P. P. Carpenter, 1866)
Species Alabina veraguaensis A. M. Strong & Hertlein, 1939
Species Alabina barbarensis Bartsch, 1911 † accepted as Finella barbarensis (Bartsch, 1911)
Species Alabina hamlini Bartsch, 1911 † accepted as Finella hamlini (Bartsch, 1911)
Species Alabina io Bartsch, 1911 † accepted as Finella io (Bartsch, 1911)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Dall, W. H. (1902). Note on the names Elachista and Pleurotomaria. The Nautilus. 15(11): 127., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738516
page(s): 102 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Alabina Dall, 1902. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2021) Marine Species Traits at: http://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565618 on 2025-09-13

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Alabina Dall, 1902. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=565618 on 2025-09-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-03-23 14:53:25Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2012-01-11 17:52:07Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2013-08-29 20:29:06Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2014-02-16 17:19:22Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2018-04-30 11:53:47Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2018-06-21 18:54:44Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2018-06-22 02:44:46Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2018-06-23 16:17:54Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Dall, W. H. (1902). Note on the names Elachista and Pleurotomaria. The Nautilus. 15(11): 127., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738516
page(s): 102 [details]

original description (of Bittium (Elachista) Dall & Bartsch, 1901 †) Dall, W. H. & Bartsch, P. (1901). A new Californian Bittium. The Nautilus. 15(5): 58-59., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1738439
page(s): 58 [details]

additional source ICZN. (2018). Opinion 2408 (Case 3690). Alabina Dall, 1902 (Gastropoda, Cerithioidea): designation of Alaba cerithidioides Dall, 1889 as type species not approved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 75: 73-74. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.21805/bzn.v75.a018 [details] Available for editors

additional source Dall, W. H. (1923). Note on Finella, Obtortio and Alabina. The Nautilus. 37(1): 33-34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8524106 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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