Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Olivoidea Genus Miniaceoliva Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Olividae Scientific name Oliva miniacea Rank Species | |
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Similar Oliva, Olive snail, Oliva mustelina, Agaronia, Oliva vidua | ||
Miniaceoliva miniacea, common name the Pacific common olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.
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There are two subspecies:
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
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
Miniaceoliva miniacea Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA