Oliva amethystina

Oliva amethystina
Shell of Oliva amethystina (speicmen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. amethystina
Binomial name
Oliva amethystina
(Röding, 1798)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oliva annulata Gmelin, 1791 (nomen dubium)
  • Oliva emicator var. carnicolor Dautzenberg, 1927
  • Oliva emicator var. nebulosa Dautzenberg, 1927
  • Porphyria amethystina Röding, 1798 (original combination)
  • Porphyria aurata Link, 1807

Oliva amethystina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]

Subspecies

Description

Shell size 35 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and off Queensland, Australia.

References

  1. ^ Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus Cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten M. D. p. d. pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia et multivalvia.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ^ a b Oliva amethystina (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  • Raven J.G.M. (Han) & Recourt P. (2018). Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo. 4. Olivoidea (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda), with the description of eight new species. Vita Malacologica. 17: 113–155.
  • Tursch B., Germain L. & Greifeneder D. (1986). Studies on Olividae. IV. Oliva annulata Gmelin, 1791 (of authors): a confusion of species. Indo-Malayan Zoology. 3: 189-216
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