Oliva polpasta

Oliva polpasta
Shell of Oliva polpasta (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Oliva
Species:	O. polpasta
Binomial name
Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833 [1]
Subspecies [2]
Oliva polpasta polpasta Oliva polpasta radix
Synonyms [2]
Americoliva polpasta(Duclos, 1833) Oliva (Americoliva) polpastaDuclos, 1833· accepted, alternate representation

Oliva polpasta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olives. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Oliva polpasta polpastaDuclos, 1833
• Oliva polpasta radix Petuch & Sargent, 1986

Description

The length of the shell varies between 19 mm and 50 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Gulf of California to Peru.

References

1. Duclos, P.L. (1840) Histoire Naturelle Génerale et Particuliere de Tous les Genres de Coquilles Univalves Marines a l’état Vivant et Fossile, Publiée par Monographies, Genre Columbella. Didot, Paris, 1 p., 13 pls.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
2. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448141 on 2021-11-02

• Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1–111

External links

• Duclos P.L. (1833). Olive polpasta. Oliva polpasta. Magasin de Zoologie. 3(5): pl. 20
• Duclos, P. L. (1835–1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiée par monographie. Genre Olive. Paris: Institut de France. 33 plates: pls 1–pls 1 [1835], pls 13–pls 13
• Syntype at MNHN, Paris