Oliva miniacea

Oliva miniacea

Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Olivoidea
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Oliva
Species:	O. miniacea
Binomial name
*Oliva miniacea* (Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
Cylinder erythrostoma (Meuschen, 1787) (non-binomial) Oliva azemula Duclos, 1840 - in part (synonym) Oliva aurantiaca Schumacher, 1817 Oliva berti Terzer, 1986 Oliva erythrostoma Lamarck, 1811 Oliva erythrostoma var. efasciata Dautzenberg, 1927 Oliva erythrostoma var. saturata Dautzenberg, 1927 Oliva lamberti Jousseaume, 1884 Oliva magnifica Ducros de St. Germain, 1857 Oliva masaris Duclos, 1835 Oliva messaris Marrat, 1871 Oliva miniata Link, H.F., 1807 Oliva porphyracea Perry, G., 1811 Oliva porphyritica Marrat, 1871 Oliva sericea var. johnsoni Higgins, 1919 Oliva sericea var. marratti Johnson, 1910 Oliva sylvia Duclos, 1845 Oliva titea Duclos, 1844 Oliva zeilanica Johnson, 1910 Oliva (Miniaceoliva) miniacea (Röding, 1798) Oliva (Oliva) erythrostoma Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811 Oliva (Oliva) porphyritica Marrat, F.P., 1870 Porphyria miniacea Röding, 1798 (basionym) Porphyria miniata Link, 1807

Oliva miniacea, common name the Pacific common olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.^[1]

There are two subspecies:

Oliva miniacea berti Terzer, 1986
Oliva miniacea miniacea (Röding, 1798)

Subspecies brought into synonymy

Oliva miniacea tremulina Lamarck, 1811: synonym of Oliva tremulina Lamarck, 1811

Description

The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 100mm.

This species has caused food poisoning with a paralytic toxin in Taiwan in 2002 ^[2]

Spire of the Pacific Common Olive, Length 7.5 cm, Width 3.6 mm

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the Western Pacific Ocean and in the Andaman Sea.

References

↑ Oliva miniacea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 November 2012.
↑ Hwang, P. A., Tsai E. H., Lu Y. H., & Hwang D. F. (2003). Paralytic toxins in three new gastropod (Olividae) species implicated in food poisoning in southern Taiwan.

Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
Sargent D.M. & Petuch E.J. (2012) A new species of Oliva (Gastropoda: Olividae) from Mauritius, Mascarene Islands. Visaya 3(5): 4-10.

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