Swainsonia olivaeformis

Swainsonia olivaeformis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Infraorder: Neogastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Mitridae
Genus: Swainsonia
Species: S. olivaeformis
Binomial name
Swainsonia olivaeformis
(Swainson, 1821)
Synonyms[1]
  • Imbricaria olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821)
  • Mitra dactyloidea Anton, H.E., 1838
  • Mitra olivaeformis Swainson, 1821 (original combination)
  • Mitra olivellaeformis Pilsbry, H.A., 1920

Imbricaria olivaeformis, common name the olive-shaped mitre, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mitridae, the miter shells or miter snails.[2]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Indo-Pacific off the Mascarene Basin and Réunion; in the Pacific Ocean off the Philippines, Hawaii, Australia, Papua New Guinea, Japan and Okinawa

Description

The length of the shell varies between 7 mm and 21 mm

References

  1. "Imbricaria olivaeformis". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 11 December 2010.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2017). Swainsonia olivaeformis. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=934809 on 2017-06-21
  • Arianna Fulvo and Roberto Nistri (2005). 350 coquillages du monde entier. Delachaux et Niestlé (Paris) : 256 p.  ISBN 2-603-01374-2
  • Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4. page(s): 138
  • Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2008). Mitridae. pp. 330–417, in: G.T. Poppe (ed.), Philippine marine mollusks, volume 2. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 848 pp.

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