| Oliva todosina | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Oliva |
| Species: | O. todosina |
| Binomial name | |
| Oliva todosina Duclos, 1840 | |
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Oliva todosina, common name the pretty olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[1]
- Subspecies
- Oliva todosina solomonensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986
- Oliva todosina todosina Duclos, 1840
Description
The length of the shell varies between 14 mm and 28 mm.
var. lepida
Distribution
This marine species occurs off Madagascar and in the Bay of Bengal; also off Japan, Micronesia and Polynesia.
References
- 1 2 Oliva todosina Duclos, 1840. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp
- Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1-111
- Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–
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