Olivancillaria orbignyi

Olivancillaria orbignyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Olivoidea
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Olivancillaria
Species:	O. orbignyi
Binomial name
	Olivancillaria orbignyi; (Marrat, 1868)
Synonyms
	Agaronia orbignyi (Marrat, 1868); Agaronia pallida auct. non Swainson, 1831; Agaronia testacea auct. non Lamarck, 1811; Oliva orbignyi Marrat, 1868 (original combination); Olivancillaria uretai Klappenbach, 1965;

Olivancillaria orbignyi, common name Ureta's olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 24 mm and 35 mm.

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean from Brazil to Argentina.

^ Bouchet, P. (2012). Olivancillaria orbignyi (Marrat, 1868). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573238 on 2012-11-17

Marrat, F. P. 1868. On Oliva auricularia, Lam., O. aquatilis, Reeve, and O. auricularia D'Orb.. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4)2: 167-168.
Klappenbach M.A. (1965). Consideraciones sobre el genero Olivancillaria d'Orbigny 1840 (Moll.Gastr.) y descripcion de dos nuevas especies de aguas Argentinas y Uruguayas. Com.Zool.Mus.His.Nat.Montevideo 8(104
Teso V. & Pastorino G. (2011) A revision of the genus Olivancillaria (Mollusca: Olividae) from the southwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa 2889: 1–34. [

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