Oliva sargenti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. sargenti
Binomial name
Oliva sargenti
Petuch, 1987[1]

Oliva sargenti is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]

Description

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

Locus typicus: "Malmok, Aruba Island, Netherlands Antilles."[4]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Oliva sargenti Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF
  4. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 105. Publ: CERF


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