Oliva fulgurator is a species of sea snail, an olive snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[1]

Oliva fulgurator
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. fulgurator
Binomial name
Oliva fulgurator
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms[1]
  • Oliva aldinia Duclos, 1844
  • Oliva bullata Marrat, 1871
  • Oliva fusiformis Lamarck, 1811
  • Oliva mercatoria Marrat, 1871
  • Porphyria fulgurator Röding, 1798 (original combination)
Subspecies
  • Oliva fulgurator bullata Marrat, 1871
  • Oliva fulgurator fulgurator (Röding, 1798)

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs in the Caribbean Sea and off the Lesser Antilles.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Oliva fulgurator (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.