Oliva sargenti
| Oliva sargenti | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Oliva |
| Species: | O. sargenti
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| Binomial name | |
| Oliva sargenti Petuch, 1987[1]
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Oliva sargenti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]
Description
[edit]Original description: "Shell small for subgenus, ovate in outline, with rounded sides; spire low, body inflated, wider at mid-body than at shoulder; color pale bluish-white overlaid with loose network of very fine, pale tan triangles in netted pattern; triangles often aligned in zig-zag fashion, running length of shell from suture to anterior end; zig-zag and netted pattern overlaid with 2 wide bands of dark brown spots; one above mid-body, one below; in mature specimens, color pattern obscured by milky, bluish-white enamel glaze; columella with 14-15 well-developed plications; anterior end of columella with characteristic reddish patch; edge of suture bordered with numerous fine, hairstreak brown flammules and intermittent large pale blue flammules; interior of aperture white; inner edge of lip bordered with dark brown flammules; protoconch large, pale tan."[3]
Distribution
[edit]Locus typicus: "Malmok, Aruba Island, Netherlands Antilles."[4]
References
[edit]- ^ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ^ Oliva sargenti Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF