Oliva atalina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]
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| Shell of Oliva atalina (syntype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Oliva |
| Species: | O. atalina
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| Oliva atalina Duclos, 1835[1]
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Description edit
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Distribution edit
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Mauritius and in the seas about China and Japan.
References edit
- ^ Duclos, P.L. (1840) Histoire Naturelle Génerale et Particuliere de Tous les Genres de Coquilles Univalves Marines a l’état Vivant et Fossile, Publiée par Monographies, Genre Columbella. Didot, Paris, 1 p., 13 pls.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ a b Oliva atalina Duclos, 1835. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 April 2012.
- Sargent D.M. & Petuch E.J. (2012) A new species of Oliva (Gastropoda: Olividae) from Mauritius, Mascarene Islands. Visaya 3(5): 4–10.
- Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1-111.
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