Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Epitonioidea > Family Epitoniidae

Alora H. Adams, 1861

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Alora retifera Bouchet & Warén, 1986
Alora tenerrima (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)

Literature

original description	Adams, H. (1861). Description of a new genus of shells from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1860) 28: 272-273.
basis of record	Brown L.G. & Neville B.D. (2015). Catalog of the recent taxa of the families Epitoniidae and Nystiellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) with a bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Zootaxa. 3907(1): 1-188.
additional source	Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1986). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae Eulimidae, Epitonidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. suppl. 2: 297-576.
additional source	Kilburn R.N. (1985). The family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 27(1): 239-337.
additional source	Gittenberger, A. & Gittenberger, E. (2012). Alora redefined (Gastropoda, Caenogastropoda, Epitoniidae). Basteria. 76(4-6): 149-152.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Alora H. Adams, 1861. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137937