Oliva incrassata | |
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Five views of a shell of Oliva incrassata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Olividae |
Genus: | Oliva |
Species: | O. incrassata
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Binomial name | |
Oliva incrassata | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Oliva burchorum Zeigler, 1969 |
Oliva incrassata, the angled olive or giant olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. [2]
This species is widespread from California to Peru. [3]
These sea snails live at the low-tide level, at the outer side of sandspits. [4]
Shells of Oliva incrassata can reach a length of 32–95 millimetres (1.3–3.7 in). [3] These relatively large shells are almost cylindrical, very thick, ovate, angularly swollen in the middle, with a rather short spire, a narrow and long aperture and usually with uniformly colored body whorls, except in the colummellar area. The basic color background may vary from ash-white or greyish to light yellow and brown, mottled with gray and olive, with angled transverse dark chestnut streaks and a fleshy rosy pink columellar area. [4] [5]
The Giant Olives are active predators. At night they search for food, while during the day they bury themselves beneath the sand and mud.
Oliva incrassata | |
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Five views of a shell of Oliva incrassata | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Olividae |
Genus: | Oliva |
Species: | O. incrassata
|
Binomial name | |
Oliva incrassata | |
Synonyms [2] | |
Oliva burchorum Zeigler, 1969 |
Oliva incrassata, the angled olive or giant olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives. [2]
This species is widespread from California to Peru. [3]
These sea snails live at the low-tide level, at the outer side of sandspits. [4]
Shells of Oliva incrassata can reach a length of 32–95 millimetres (1.3–3.7 in). [3] These relatively large shells are almost cylindrical, very thick, ovate, angularly swollen in the middle, with a rather short spire, a narrow and long aperture and usually with uniformly colored body whorls, except in the colummellar area. The basic color background may vary from ash-white or greyish to light yellow and brown, mottled with gray and olive, with angled transverse dark chestnut streaks and a fleshy rosy pink columellar area. [4] [5]
The Giant Olives are active predators. At night they search for food, while during the day they bury themselves beneath the sand and mud.