Kingdom Animalia Class Gastropoda Family Olividae Scientific name Oliva porphyria | Phylum Mollusca Superfamily Olivoidea Genus Oliva Rank Species | |
 | ||
Similar Oliva, Olive snail, Miniaceoliva miniacea, Oliva incrassata, Lettered olive | ||
Oliva porphyria, common name the tent olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.
Contents
Subspecies
Description
The length of the shell can vary between 30 mm and 135 mm. The flesh-colored shell is angularly marked with some large, and many small, crowded, deep chestnut lines. The fascicle is tinged with violet, with chestnut maculations. The interior of the aperture and columella is yellowish flesh-color. Sometimes the shell is very faintly, broadly two- or three-banded with bluish ash.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Panama Zone to Western Mexico (Gulf of California), to Northern Peru.
References
Oliva porphyria Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA