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Oliva polpasta
Shell of Oliva polpasta (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Oliva
Species:	O. polpasta
Binomial name
Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833
Subspecies
Oliva polpasta polpasta Oliva polpasta radix
Synonyms
Americoliva polpasta (Duclos, 1833) Oliva (Americoliva) polpasta Duclos, 1833· accepted, alternate representation

Oliva polpasta is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olives.

Subspecies

• Oliva polpasta polpasta Duclos, 1833
• Oliva polpasta radix Petuch & Sargent, 1986

Description

The length of the shell varies between 19 mm and 50 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off the Gulf of California to Peru.

References

1. Duclos, P.L. (1840) Histoire Naturelle Génerale et Particuliere de Tous les Genres de Coquilles Univalves Marines a l’état Vivant et Fossile, Publiée par Monographies, Genre Columbella. Didot, Paris, 1 p., 13 pls.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
2. ^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oliva polpasta Duclos, 1833. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448141 on 2021-11-02

• Vervaet F.L.J. (2018). The living Olividae species as described by Pierre-Louis Duclos. Vita Malacologica. 17: 1–111

External links

• Duclos P.L. (1833). Olive polpasta. Oliva polpasta. Magasin de Zoologie. 3(5): pl. 20
• Duclos, P. L. (1835–1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiée par monographie. Genre Olive. Paris: Institut de France. 33 plates: pls 1–pls 1 [1835], pls 13–pls 13
• Syntype at MNHN, Paris

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