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Oliva caribaeensis Dall & Simpson, 1901

kingdom Animalia - animals »  phylum Mollusca - mollusks »  class Gastropoda - gastropods »  order Neogastropoda »  family Olividae - Olive Shells »  genus Oliva

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Oliva caribaeensis

Author: Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T.

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Description

Shell rather short and stout, its greatest diameter being near the shoulder; spire low, the suture being deeply channeled; outer lip heavy; columella having a strong white callus extending up for two-thirds of the length of the aperture, where it thins out; columellar plications numerous and distinct but not strong. The ground color is ashy yellow, becoming darker below, overlaid with a close faint reticulation of reddish brown. There are two faint bands of darker reticulations on the outside whorl and splashes and lines of this dark color under the suture. The interior is purplish; the columella is a little lighter colored.
Length, 32; diameter, 15 mm.
Dall, W.H. & Simpson, C.T., 1901. The Mollusca of Porto Rico.
Author: Jan Delsing

Links and literature

CZ Pfleger V. (1999): České názvy živočichů III. Měkkýši (Mollusca), Národní muzeum, (zoologické odd.), Praha, 108 pp. [as Oliva caribaeensis DALL & SIMPSON, 1901]
Data retrieved on: 11 November 2013

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