title: Alora (gastropod)
text: # Alora (gastropod)
  
  Alora is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine prosobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Epitoniidae, commonly known as wentletraps.
  
  ## Species
  
  According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following species with valid names are included within the genus Alora :
  
  * Alora annulata (Kuroda & Ito, 1961)
  * Alora gouldii (A. Adams, 1857)
  * Alora kiiensis Nakayama, 2000
  * Alora rapunculus Kilburn, 1975
  * Alora retifera Bouchet & Warén, 1986
  * Alora tenerrima (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
  * Alora turbinata Poppe, 2008
  
  ### Species brought into synonymy
  
  * Alora billeeana (DuShane & Bratcher, 1965) : synonym of Epidendrium billeeanum (DuShane & Bratcher, 1965)
  * Alora insignis (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932): synonym of Alora gouldii (A. Adams, 1857)
  * Alora reticulata (Habe, 1962): synonym of Foratiscala reticulata (Habe, 1962)
  