Species Oliva annulata (Gmelin, 1791)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Voluta annulata Gmelin J.F. 1791. Caroli a Linné. Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Lipsiae : Georg. Emanuel. Beer Vermes. Vol. 1(Part 6) pp. 3021–3910. [officially regarded by the ICZN Opinion 296 (26 Oct 1954) as the 13th edition of Systema Naturae] [3441].

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Petuch, E.J. & Sargent, D.M. 1986. Atlas of the Living Olive Shells of the World. Fort Lauderville, Virginia : Coastal Education and Research Foundation 253 pp. (see article for synonymy)

 

Generic Combinations

• Oliva (Annulataoliva) annulata (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Hunon, C., Hoarau, A. & Robin, A. 2009. Olividae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). A complete survey of Recent species of the genus Oliva. Paris, France : Xenophora 256 pp. [13, 48]
• Oliva annulata (Gmelin, 1791). —
  Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [529]

 

Introduction

There has been some discussion whether this valid name is a nomen nudum. At present it is generally accepted as available.

 

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Oceania, Indo-Malaysia, Central and East Indian Ocean, East Africa, Indo-China, Philippines; Indo-West Pacific; Rowley Shoals and Scott Reef, WA to central Qld (Wilson, 1994).

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Intertidal, marine, sand bottom marine, subtidal.

 

General References

Kilburn, R.N. 1980. The genus Oliva (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Olividae) in Southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 24(1): 221-231 [223]

Maes, V.O. 1967. The littoral marine mollusks of Cocos-Keeling Islands (Indian Ocean). Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 119: 93–217 [137]

Okutani, T. 2000. Marine mollusks in Japan. Tokyo : Tokai University Press 1173 pp. [529, pl. 263, fig. 20]

Rosenberg, G. 2011. Oliva annulata Gmelin, 1791. In: MolluscaBase (2015). World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208385 (Accessed on 2015-09-30)

Salvat, B. & Rives, C. 1975. Coquillages de Polynésie. Tahiti : Papéete Les editions du pacifique, 391 pp. [324]

Sterba, G.H.W. 2004. Olividae: a collectors guide (Mollusca, Neogastropoda). Hackenheim : ConchBooks 172 pp. [70] (considers annulata a nomen nudum and splits the taxon into three species following Tursch et al. (1986))

Tursch, B. & Greifeneder, D. 2001. Oliva Shells. The genus Oliva and the species problem. Italy : L Informatore Piceno 570 pp. [433]

Tursch, B. & L. Germain 1985. Studies on Olividae. I. A morphometric approach to the Oliva problem. Indo-Malayan Zoology 2: 331-352 (includes O. annulata)

Tursch, B. & L. Germain 1986. Studies on Olividae. IV. Oliva annulata Gmelin, 1791 (of authors): A confusion of species. Indo-Malayan Zoology 3: 189-216

Wells, F.E. & Bryce, C.W. 1986. Seashells of Western Australia. Perth : Western Australian Museum 207 pp. [104]

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [133, pl. 28, fig. 3a-b]

Wilson, B.R. & Gillett, K. 1971. Australian shells: illustrating and describing 600 species of marine gastropods found in Australian waters. Sydney : Reed Books 168 pp. [106, pl. 69, figs 3-3b]

 

Common Name References

Coleman, N. 1975. What Shell is That? Sydney : Lansdowne Press 298 pp. [218] (Ringed Olive)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	30-Sep-2015	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED