Mangelia olivieriana

Mangelia olivieriana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae.[1]

Mangelia olivieriana
Original image of a shell (and protoconch) of Mangelia olivieriana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Mangeliidae
Genus: Mangelia
Species:
M. olivieriana
Binomial name
Mangelia olivieriana
J.C. Melvill, 1917
Synonyms

Mangilia olivieriana J.C. Melvill, 1917

Description

The length of the shell attains 9 mm, its diameter 3 mm.

This is a thin species that is abysmal in its distribution. It has a milky-white or bluish colour, with an olive-brown fugitive epidermis. It is 8-whorled, three being only very slightly costellate, and crossed with coarsish distant raised lines .The aperture is singularly wide. The outer lip is thin. The sinus is wide but very shallow. The columella is straight.[1]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Baluchistan facing the coast of Oman

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References
  1. Melvill J.C., 1917. A revision of the Turridae (Pleurotomidae) occurring in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and north Arabian Sea as evidenced mostly through the results of dredgings carried out by Mr F. W. Townsend, 1893~1914. Proc. Malac. Soc. Lond. 12: 140-201, pls. 8-10 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Tucker, J.K. 2004 Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Zootaxa 682:1-1295.
  • "Mangelia olivieriana". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 16 January 2019.


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