Species Oliva australis Duclos, 1835

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliva australis Duclos, P.L. 1835. Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiée par monographies. Genre Olive. Paris : Didot. [pl. 8, fig.3,4].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHN.
• Oliva australis pallescens 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. [58, pl.1, figs 3,4].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.153538 dry, on sand flats, low tide, Eucla, Western Australia, Australia [31°43'1.2'S,128°52'1.2'E].
• Oliva kurzi 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. [61, pl.2, figs 17,18].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.153540 dry, sand bottom, 2 km north of Broome, Western Australia, Australia [17°57'0'S,122°13'58.8'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Oliva (Acutoliva) australis Duclos, 1835. —
  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. [34]

 

Distribution

States

South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Australian Endemic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, sand, subtidal.

 

General References

Hedley, C. 1916. A preliminary index of the Mollusca of Western Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1: 152-226 [202]

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. [34, 35, text figs]

Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962. Marine molluscs of Victoria. Melbourne : Melbourne University Press & National Museum of Victoria 475 pp. [208, fig. 248]

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. [58]

Pritchard, G.B. & Gatliff, J.H. 1899. Catalogue of the marine shells of Victoria. Part II. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria n.s. 11(2): 185-208 [193]

Sterba, G.H.W. 2004. Olividae: a collectors guide (Mollusca, Neogastropoda). Hackenheim : ConchBooks 172 pp. [78, pl. 26]

Tursch, B. & Greifeneder, D. 2001. Oliva Shells. The genus Oliva and the species problem. Italy : L Informatore Piceno 570 pp. [314, 315, 434]

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. 29, figs 2a-b, 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. [108, pl. 71, figs 1-1b]

 

Common Name References

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

McMichael, D.F. 1960. Shells of the Australian sea-shore. Brisbane : Jacaranda Press 127 pp., 287 figs. [Date published December] [100] (Southern Olive)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	OLIVOIDEA	19-Jan-2012	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		28-Nov-2011	MODIFIED