Pila olea

Pila olea
drawing of a shell of Pila olea (holotype)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. olea
Binomial name
Pila olea (Reeve, 1856)
Synonyms
Ampullaria oleaReeve, 1856 superseded combination

Pila olea, common name the olive ampullaria, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the apple snails family, Ampullariidae. ^[1]

Description

(Original description) The shell is subglobose and scarcely umbilicated, with a rather short spire. Its whorls are rounded and longitudinally striated. It appears shining olive, encircled with two distant, narrow, blackish-red bands. The aperture is pyriformly oval. ^[2]

Distribution

This species is found in India.

References

1. Pila olea (Reeve, 1856) . 3 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species .
2. Reeve, L.A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Ampullaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10. London: L. Reeve & Co. p. pl. 21 number 102. Retrieved 3 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

• Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.

External links

• Sil, M.; Basak, R.; Karanth, K. P.; Aravind, N. A. (2021). ". A new species of Pila (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) from Mizoram, India". Molluscan Research. 41 (3): 204–213. Bibcode:2021MollR..41..204S. doi:10.1080/13235818.2021.1941575.