Oliva amethystina | |
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Shell of Oliva amethystina (speicmen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific 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] | |
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Oliva amethystina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. [2]
Shell size 35 mm.
This marine species occurs off Philippines, Papua New Guinea, and off Queensland, Australia.
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Peter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.
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