Miniaceoliva miniacea

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]

Miniaceoliva miniacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Olivoidea
Family:
Olividae
Genus:
Miniaceoliva
Species:
M. miniacea
Binomial name
Miniaceoliva miniacea
(Röding, 1798)
Synonyms
  • Cylinder erythrostoma (Meuschen, 1787) (non-binomial)
  • Oliva aurantiaca Schumacher, 1817
  • Oliva erythrostoma Lamarck, 1811
  • Oliva erythrostoma var. efasciata Dautzenberg, 1927
  • Oliva erythrostoma var. saturata Dautzenberg, 1927
  • Oliva magnifica Ducros de St. Germain, 1857
  • Oliva masaris Duclos, 1835
  • Oliva messaris Marrat, 1871
  • Oliva miniata Link, H.F., 1807
  • Oliva porphyracea Perry, G., 1811
  • Oliva porphyritica Marrat, 1871
  • Oliva sericea var. johnsoni Higgins, 1919
  • Oliva sericea var. marratti Johnson, 1910
  • Oliva sylvia Duclos, 1845
  • Oliva titea Duclos, 1844
  • Oliva zeilanica Johnson, 1910
  • Oliva (Miniaceoliva) miniacea (Röding, 1798)
  • Oliva (Oliva) erythrostoma Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1811
  • Oliva (Oliva) porphyritica Marrat, F.P., 1870
  • Porphyria miniacea Röding, 1798 (basionym)
  • Porphyria miniata Link, 1807

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. It is one of the larger olive snails.

As is typical of olivids, the shell of this species is smooth, glossy, and elongated, with a very long aperture. The spire of this species is quite low even for an olivid. The filament channel, a groove present on the spire of olivids, is especially distinct in this species.

Shells of this species tend to have a yellowish or pale orange ground color with a pattern of two or three wide, rough bands of a much darker color (usually dark brown or black). Finer patterning is often present between the bands. Exceedingly pale specimens may be off-white with light brown patterns. At the opposite extreme, sometimes the pattern can cover so much of the shell that the shell is nearly black. The inside of the aperture is orange or yellowish-orange.

This species has caused food poisoning with a paralytic toxin in Taiwan in 2002.[2]

Spire of the Pacific Common Olive, Length 7.5 cm, Width 3.6 mm

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
  1. Oliva miniacea (Röding, 1798). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 16 November 2012.
  2. 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
  • "Oliva (Miniaceoliva) miniacea". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  • Oliva miniacea miniacea (Röding, 1798)


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