Species Oliva brettinghami Bridgman, 1909

Museums

Regional Maps

• Oliva brettinghami Bridgman, F.G. 1909. Description of a new species of Oliva. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 8(4): 203 [203].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH, N.W. Australia.
• Oliva caldania queenslandica 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. [114, pl.19, figs 5,6].

  Type data:

   Holotype AM C.153539 dry, off Cape Moreton, Queensland, Australia [27°7'1.2'S,153°31'1.2'E].

 

Generic Combinations

• Oliva (Proxoliva) brettinghami Bridgman, 1909. —
  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. [156]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Oliva caldania of authors Duclos, 1835 [repeated in Zeigler & Porreca, 1969 and Petuch & Sargent, 1986 not Oliva caldania Duclos, 1835 (nomen dubium)]. —
  Burch, J.Q. & Burch, R.L. 1960. Catalog of recent and fossil Olives. Minutes of the Conchological Club of Southern California 196: 1-46 [8]

 

Distribution

States

Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Central Indo-West Pacific

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

Ecological Descriptors

Marine, shallow subtidal.

 

General References

Greifeneder, D. & Tursch, B. 1996. The specimens vs. figures: on the identity of some Oliva species (Studies on Oliva 26). Apex 11(3-4): 163-175 [165]

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. [156-157, text figs]

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. [114, pl. 19, figs 3-4] (as Oliva caldania)

Sterba, G.H.W. 2004. Olividae: a collectors guide (Mollusca, Neogastropoda). Hackenheim : ConchBooks 172 pp. [84, pl. 29]

Tursch, B. & Greifeneder, D. 2001. Oliva Shells. The genus Oliva and the species problem. Italy : L Informatore Piceno 570 pp. [320, 436]

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

Wilson, B. 1994. Australian marine shells. Prosobranch gastropods. Kallaroo, WA : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 2 370 pp. [135, pl. 29, figs 6a-b] (as Oliva caldania)

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 5-5a]

Zeigler, R.F. & Porreca, H.C. 1969. Olive Shells of the World. New York : Zeigler & Porreca 96 pp. [66, pl. 10, fig. 15] (as Oliva caldania)

 

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