Oliva miniacea

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Oliva miniacea
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Scientific classification OOjs UI icon edit-ltr.svg
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. miniacea
Binomial name
Oliva miniacea
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Cylinder erythrostoma(Meuschen, 1787)(non-binomial)
  • Miniaceoliva miniacea(Röding, 1798)
  • Oliva aurantiacaSchumacher, 1817
  • Oliva azemulaDuclos, 1840
  • Oliva erythrostomaLamarck, 1811
  • Oliva erythrostoma var. efasciataDautzenberg, 1927
  • Oliva erythrostoma var. saturataDautzenberg, 1927
  • Oliva magnificaDucros de St. Germain, 1857
  • Oliva masarisDuclos, 1835
  • Oliva messarisMarrat, 1871
  • Oliva miniataLink, H.F., 1807
  • Oliva miniacea miniacea(Röding, 1798)
  • Oliva porphyraceaPerry, G., 1811
  • Oliva porphyriticaMarrat, 1871
  • Oliva sericea var. johnsoniHiggins, 1919
  • Oliva sericea var. marratti Johnson, 1910
  • Oliva sylviaDuclos, 1845
  • Oliva titeaDuclos, 1844
  • Oliva zeilanicaJohnson, 1910
  • Oliva (Miniaceoliva) miniacea(Röding, 1798)
  • Oliva (Oliva) erythrostomaLamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • Oliva (Oliva) porphyriticaMarrat, F.P., 1870
  • Porphyria miniaceaRöding, 1798 (basionym)
  • Porphyria miniataLink, 1807

Oliva miniacea, common name the Pacific common olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. [1]

Contents

There are two subspecies:

Description

The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 100mm. It is one of the larger olive snails.

As is typical of olivids, the shell of this species is smooth, glossy, and elongated, with a very long aperture. The spire of this species is quite low even for an olivid. The filament channel, a groove present on the spire of olivids, is especially distinct in this species.

Shells of this species tend to have a yellowish or pale orange ground color with a pattern of two or three wide, rough bands of a much darker color (usually dark brown or black). Finer patterning is often present between the bands. Exceedingly pale specimens may be off-white with light brown patterns. At the opposite extreme, sometimes the pattern can cover so much of the shell that the shell is nearly black. The inside of the aperture is orange or yellowish-orange.

This species has caused food poisoning with a paralytic toxin in Taiwan in 2002. [2]

Spire of the Pacific Common Olive, Length 7.5 cm, Width 3.6 mm Oliva miniacea 004 (spire) from Okinawa.jpg
Spire of the Pacific Common Olive, Length 7.5 cm, Width 3.6 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the Western Pacific Ocean and in the Andaman Sea.

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References

  1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oliva miniacea (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208379 on 2021-07-29
  2. Hwang, P. A., Tsai E. H., Lu Y. H., & Hwang D. F. (2003). Paralytic toxins in three new gastropod (Olividae) species implicated in food poisoning in southern Taiwan.