Oliva miniacea
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| Species: | M. miniacea
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Miniaceoliva miniacea, common name the Pacific common olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[1]
There are two subspecies:
- Oliva miniacea berti Terzer, 1986: synonym of Miniaceoliva efasciata berti (Terzer, 1986)
- Oliva miniacea tremulina Lamarck, 1811: synonym of Miniaceoliva tremulina (Lamarck, 1811)
Description
The length of the shell varies between 45 mm and 100mm.
This species has caused food poisoning with a paralytic toxin in Taiwan in 2002 [2]
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Distribution
This species occurs in the Indian Ocean off Chagos, the Mascarene Basin and Mauritius; in the Western Pacific Ocean and in the Andaman Sea.
References
- ^ Oliva miniacea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 November 2012.
- ^ Hwang, P. A., Tsai E. H., Lu Y. H., & Hwang D. F. (2003). Paralytic toxins in three new gastropod (Olividae) species implicated in food poisoning in southern Taiwan.
- Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Mollusques testacés marins de Madagascar. Faune des Colonies Francaises, Tome III
- Sargent D.M. & Petuch E.J. (2012) A new species of Oliva (Gastropoda: Olividae) from Mauritius, Mascarene Islands. Visaya 3(5): 4-10.
- Petuch, E. J.; Myers, R. F. (2014). New species and subspecies of olive shells (Gastropoda: Olividae) from the Panamic and Indo-Pacific regions and the Gulf of Mexico. The Festivus. 46(3): 63-74
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