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Olividae

16 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Olividae

Olivella pusilla (Marrat, 1871)

Olivella pusilla is a species of small marine dwarf olive sea snail in the family Olividae.

Callianax biplicata (G.B.Sowerby I, 1825)

Callianax biplicata is a Pacific coastal gastropod whose shells were historically used by Native Californians for beads and shell money.

Callianax alectona (Duclos, 1835)

Callianax alectona is a small olive sea snail species found in the Pacific Ocean off California.

Oliva sayana Ravenel, 1834

Oliva sayana, the lettered olive, is a marine species that is the state shell of South Carolina.

Oliva spicata (Röding, 1798)

Oliva spicata is a marine species whose shell measures 25–85 mm, found between the Gulf of California and Peru.

Oliva reticularis Lamarck, 1811

Oliva reticularis is a marine species with a shell 25–46 mm long, found in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and Atlantic near Bermuda and northern Brazil.

Oliva incrassata (Lightfoot), 1786

Oliva incrassata is a species of sea snail with distinctive thick, variable-colored shells ranging from California to Peru.

Oliva mustelina Lamarck, 1811

Oliva mustelina is a species of marine gastropod mollusk sea snail in the olive snail family Olividae.

Oliva undatella Lamarck, 1811

Oliva undatella is a marine species with shell length 10–25 mm, found from the Gulf of California to Peru.

Oliva oliva (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oliva oliva is a variable marine gastropod with a wide distribution ranging from Southeast India into the Pacific.

Oliva amethystina (Röding, 1798)

Oliva amethystina is a marine species with 35 mm shells found off the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia.

Oliva australis Duclos, 1835

Oliva australis Duclos, 1835 is a small marine olive snail found in the Atlantic Ocean off Saint Pierre and Miquelon.

Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833

Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833 is a marine species with shell length 19–50 mm, found from the Gulf of California to Peru.

Agaronia testacea (Lamarck, 1811)

Agaronia testacea is a western Pacific marine snail with a spotted conical shell, found from Alaska to Peru, with known fossils.

Agaronia gibbosa (Born, 1778)

Agaronia gibbosa is a variable-shaped bulbous marine snail found in the Indian Ocean, common in the shell trade.

Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798)

Olivancillaria urceus is a sea snail species endemic to the South American coast from Brazil to Uruguay.

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