Oliva scripta

Oliva scripta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Olivoidea
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species: O. scripta
Binomial name
Oliva scripta
Lamarck, 1811

Oliva scripta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[1]

Distribution

Trawled by shrimpers working tropical Western Atlantic continental shelf areas.
Also known from traps set at depths of 120 metres, offshore West coast Barbados, Lesser Antilles.

References

  1. ↑ Oliva scripta Lamarck, 1811.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.


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