Oliva ozodona

Oliva ozodona
Shell of Oliva ozodona (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
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) nitidulaDuclos, 1835 Oliva paxillusReeve, 1850 Olivella paxillusReeve, 1850 Omogymna nitidula(Duclos, 1835)

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

Subspecies

• Oliva ozodona nellyaeT. Cossignani, 2017
• Oliva ozodona nitidulaDuclos, 1835
• Oliva ozodona ozodonaDuclos, 1835
• Oliva ozodona sandwicensisPease, 1860

Distribution

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

References

1. 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