Oliva emeliodina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]

Oliva emeliodina
Shell of Oliva emeliodina (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. emeliodina
Binomial name
Oliva emeliodina
Duclos, 1845[1]
Synonyms[2]

Oliva sairousa Kilburn, 1980

Description

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Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Vietnam.

References

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  • Chenu, 1845 - Parts 35. In Illustrations Conchyliologiques ou description et figures de toutes les coquilles connues vivantes et fossiles, classées suivant le système de Lamarck modifié d'après les progrès de la science et comprenant les genres nouveaux et les espèces récemment découvertes, p. Oliva pp 29–31 ; Strombus pp 17, pl 7, 6, 21, 15 ; Serpula pl 5, 6
  • Kilburn, R.N. (1980). The genus Oliva (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Olividae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 24(1): 221–231.
  • 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, 1–289
  • Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1-111