Oliva ozodona

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

Oliva ozodona
Shell of Oliva ozodona (specimen 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. ozodona
Binomial name
Oliva ozodona
Duclos, 1835
Synonyms[1]
  • Oliva (Acutoliva) nitidula Duclos, 1835
  • Oliva paxillus Reeve, 1850
  • Olivella paxillus Reeve, 1850
  • Omogymna nitidula (Duclos, 1835)
Subspecies
  • Oliva ozodona nellyae T. Cossignani, 2017
  • Oliva ozodona nitidula Duclos, 1835
  • Oliva ozodona ozodona Duclos, 1835
  • Oliva ozodona sandwicensis Pease, 1860

Description edit

Distribution edit

This marine species occurs off French Guiana and in Melanesia to the Philippines

References edit

  1. ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oliva ozodona Duclos, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=999689 on 2021-10-31
  • Petuch E.J. & Sargent D.M. (1986). Atlas of the living olive shells of the world. xv + 253 pp., 39 pls
  • Paulmier G. , 2014. La famille des Olividae Latreille, 1825 (Neogastropoda). Le genre Oliva Bruguière, 1789, aux Antilles et en Guyane françaises. Description de Oliva lilacea nov. sp. Bulletin de la Société Linnéenne de Bordeaux 41(4) "2013": 437-454, sér. 148, nouvelle série
  • Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1-111