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Olivellidae
Olivellinae, are a subfamily of small predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells, in the family Olividae. The shells sometimes show muted but attractive colors, and may have some patterning.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Olivellinae Troschel, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225405 on 2020-03-18 These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea, within the order Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi. Distribution ''Olivella'' snails are found worldwide, but mostly Ecuador in subtropical and tropical seas and oceans. Habitat and habit These snails are found on sandy substrates intertidally and subtidally. These snails are all carnivorous sand-burrowers. Shell description The shells are basically oval and cylindrical in shape. They have a well-developed stepped spire. ''Olivella'' shells have a siphonal notch ...
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Olividae
Olive snails, also known as olive shells and olives, scientific name Olividae, are a taxonomic family of medium to large predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Olividae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23082 on 2012-06-11 The shells often show various muted but attractive colors, and may be patterned also. They are marine gastropod molluscs in the family Olividae within the main clade Neogastropoda. Taxonomy According to the Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod Families (2017) the family Olividae consists of five subfamilies: * Olivinae Latreille, 1825 – synonyms: Dactylidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (inv.); * Agaroniinae Olsson, 1956 * Calyptolivinae Kantor, Fedosov, Puillandre, Bonillo & Bouchet, 2017 * Olivancillariinae Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975 *Olivellinae Troschel, 1869 Distribution Olive snails are ...
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Olivoidea
Olivoidea is a taxonomic superfamily of minute to medium-large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the order Neogastropoda.MolluscaBase (2018). Olivoidea Latreille, 1825. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411805 on 2018-09-23 Taxonomy According to the Revised Classification, Nomenclator and Typification of Gastropod Families (2017), the superfamily Olivoidea has five families: *Family Olividae Latreille, 1825 – Olivellidae is the subfamily Olivellinae in Olividae. *Family Ancillariidae Swainson, 1840 *Family Bellolividae Kantor, Fedosov, Puillandre, Bonillo & Bouchet, 2017 *Family Benthobiidae Kantor, Fedosov, Puillandre, Bonillo & Bouchet, 2017 *Family Pseudolividae Pseudolividae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Olivoidea.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Pseudolividae de Gregorio, 1880. Accessed through: World Regist ...
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Olivella Biplicata
''Callianax biplicata'', common names the "purple dwarf olive" "purple olive shell" or "purple olivella" is a species of small predatory sea snail, a Marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusc in the family (biology), family Olividae, the olives. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Callianax biplicata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1424883 on 2021-11-04 Distribution ''Callianax biplicata'' snails are found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean coasts from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico. Habitat This species is common on sandy Substrate (marine biology), substrates intertidally and subtidally, in bays and the outer coast.Dave Cowles. 2005''Olivella biplicata (Sowerby, 1825)''. accessed 22 November 2008. Life habits These snails are carnivorous or omnivorous sand-burrowers. Shell description This shell of this species is quite solid, and large for an ''Olivella'', w ...
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Variable Dwarf Olive
''Olivella mutica'', common name the variable dwarf olive, is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Olivellinae, in the family Olividae, the olives. Species in the genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ... Olivella are commonly called dwarf olives. References External links mutica Gastropods described in 1822 {{Olividae-stub ...
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Taxonomy Of The Gastropoda (Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005)
The taxonomy of the Gastropoda as it was revised in 2005 by Philippe Bouchet and Jean-Pierre Rocroi is a system for the scientific classification of gastropod mollusks. (Gastropods are a taxonomic class of animals which consists of snails and slugs of every kind, from the land, from freshwater, and from saltwater.) The paper setting out this taxonomy was published in the journal ''Malacologia''. The system encompasses both living and extinct groups, as well as some fossils whose classification as gastropods is uncertain. The Bouchet & Rocroi system was the first complete gastropod taxonomy that primarily employed the concept of clades, and was derived from research on molecular phylogenetics; in this context a clade is a "natural grouping" of organisms based upon a statistical cluster analysis. In contrast, most of the previous overall taxonomic schemes for gastropods relied on morphological features to classify these animals, and used taxon ranks such as order, superorder ...
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Neogastropoda
Neogastropoda is an order of sea snails, both freshwater and marine gastropod molluscs. Description The available fossil record of Neogastropoda is relatively complete, and supports a widely accepted evolutionary scenario of an Early Cretaceous origin of the group followed by two rapid diversification rounds in the late Cretaceous and the Paleocene. These sea snails only have one auricle, one kidney and one monopectinate gill, i.e. the gill filaments develop on only one side of the central axis. The shell has a well-developed siphonal canal. The elongated trunk-like siphon is an extensible tube, formed from a fold in the mantle. It is used to suck water into the mantle cavity. At the base of the siphon is the bipectinate (branching from a central axis) osphradium, a sensory receptacle and olfactory organ, that is more developed than the one in the Mesogastropoda. They achieved important morphological changes including e.g., the elongation of the siphonal canal, a shift ...
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Olivellinae
Olivellinae, are a subfamily of small predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells, in the family Olividae. The shells sometimes show muted but attractive colors, and may have some patterning.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Olivellinae Troschel, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225405 on 2020-03-18 These animals are marine gastropod molluscs in the superfamily Olivoidea, within the order Neogastropoda according to the taxonomy of Bouchet and Rocroi. Distribution ''Olivella'' snails are found worldwide, but mostly Ecuador in subtropical and tropical seas and oceans. Habitat and habit These snails are found on sandy substrates intertidally and subtidally. These snails are all carnivorous sand-burrowers. Shell description The shells are basically oval and cylindrical in shape. They have a well-developed stepped spire. ''Olivella'' shells have a siphonal notch ...
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Marine (ocean)
The ocean (also the sea or the world ocean) is the body of salt water that covers approximately 70.8% of the surface of Earth and contains 97% of Earth's water. An ocean can also refer to any of the large bodies of water into which the world ocean is conventionally divided."Ocean."
''Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary'', Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ocean. Accessed March 14, 2021.
Separate names are used to identify five different areas of the ocean: (the largest), ,

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Spire (mollusc)
A spire is a part of the coiled shell of molluscs. The spire consists of all of the whorls except for the body whorl. Each spire whorl represents a rotation of 360°. A spire is part of the shell of a snail, a gastropod mollusc, a gastropod shell, and also the whorls of the shell in ammonites, which are fossil shelled cephalopods. In textbook illustrations of gastropod shells, the tradition (with a few exceptions) is to show most shells with the spire uppermost on the page. The spire, when it is not damaged or eroded, includes the protoconch (also called the nuclear whorls or the larval shell), and most of the subsequent teleoconch whorls (also called the postnuclear whorls), which gradually increase in area as they are formed. Thus the spire in most gastropods is pointed, the tip being known as the "apex". The word "spire" is used, in an analogy to a church spire or rock spire, a high, thin, pinnacle. The "spire angle" is the angle, as seen from the apex, at which a spire ...
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Olivella (gastropod)
''Olivella'', common name the dwarf olives, is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Olivellinae of the family Olividae, the olives. ''Olivella'' is the type genus of the family.WoRMS (2010). Olivella Swainson, 1831. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138274 on 2011-01-02 Description Adults in the ''Olivella'' species are usually quite small, hence the genus has the common name "dwarf olive". Species of ''Oliva'' are usually larger, but there are exceptions. The shell of ''Olivella'' usually has a keel-like twist at the anterior end of the columella. The wall above it may be concave or have deep furrows. The inner lip can sometimes show a deep callus, and in many cases this extends over the parietal wall to the end of the aperture. This callus formation may extend to the spire b ...
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Cupidoliva
''Cupidoliva'' is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Olividae. Species Species within the genus ''Cupidoliva'' include: * ''Cupidoliva adiorygma'' (Verco, 1909) * ''Cupidoliva nympha'' (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) * ''Cupidoliva solidula ''Cupidoliva solidula'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae Olive snails, also known as olive shells and olives, scientific name Olividae, are a taxonomic family of medium to large predatory sea sn ...'' (Verco, 1909) References External links * Olivellinae {{Olividae-stub ...
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Callianax
''Callianax'' is a genus of small predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Olivellinae of the family Olividae Olive snails, also known as olive shells and olives, scientific name Olividae, are a taxonomic family of medium to large predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells.Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2012). Olividae. Accessed throu ..., the olives. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Callianax H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1424881 on 2021-11-04 Species * '' Callianax alectona'' (Duclos, 1835) * '' Callianax biplicata'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1825) * '' Callianax diegensis'' (Oldroyd, 1921) * '' Callianax strigata'' (Reeve, 1850) References External links Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. ...
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