Olivella lactea

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Olivella lactea
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Olivella
Species:
O. lactea
Binomial name
Olivella lactea
(Marrat, 1871) [1]
Synonyms
  • Olivella adelaeOlsson, 1956
  • Olivella (Olivella) lactea(Marrat, 1871)

Olivella lactea is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Olivellinae, in the family Olividae, the olives. Species in the genus Olivella are commonly called dwarf olives. [2]

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Description

Original description: "Shell of medium size (length about 12 mm.), subovate, thin or of medium texture, with a rather high body-whorl and an elevated, evenly conic spire half the total length. Sutures linear, grooved, the edge of the whorl in front forming a narrow, slightly overhanging collar. Parietal callus extending weakly beyond the end of aperture about halfway to the suture, the pillar structure formed by a few small lirations which end sharply at the edge of the excavation of the pillar wall. Color is a leaden white except for a band of broken brown spots below the suture and another arranged at the edge of the fasciole, the fasciole itself white; the spire may be of uniform color or in some cases much darker approaching a blotched black. Radular ribbon like that of nivea but much smaller (a ribbon with about 30 rows of teeth has a length of 1.20 mm, the rachidian tooth about.18 mm. wide (longer diameter). The paired medial cusps of the rachidian tooth are more widely separated with smaller accessory ones between." [3]

The length of the shell varies between 8 mm and 13 mm.

Distribution

It has been found off La Guajira along the northern Caribbean coast of Colombia., [4] in the Gulf of Mexico and off the Lesser Antilles.

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References

  1. ↑ Marrat (1871). Thesaurus Conchyliorum Vol. 4.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Olivella lactea (Marrat, 1871) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 20 November 2012.
  3. ↑ Olsson, A.A. 1956-Studies on the genus Olivella.
  4. ↑ Palacio, E. F.; A. Gracia C.; G. Duque (2010). "Moluscos bentonicos de La Guajira (10 y 50 M de profundida), Caribe colombiano" [Benthic Mollusks of La Guajira (10 and 50 M Depths), Colombian Caribbean]. Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras. 39: 397–416.

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