Pila olea
| Pila olea | |
|---|---|
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| drawing of a shell of Pila olea (holotype) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Architaenioglossa |
| Family: | Ampullariidae |
| Genus: | Pila |
| Species: | P. olea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pila olea (Reeve, 1856) | |
| Synonyms | |
| Ampullaria olea Reeve, 1856 superseded combination | |
Pila olea, common name the olive ampullaria, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the apple snails family, Ampullariidae. [1]
Description
(Original description) The shell is subglobose and scarcely umbilicated, with a rather short spire. Its whorls are rounded and longitudinally striated. It appears shining olive, encircled with two distant, narrow, blackish-red bands. The aperture is pyriformly oval.[2]
Distribution
This species is found in India.
References
- ^ Pila olea (Reeve, 1856). 3 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
- ^ Reeve, L.A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Ampullaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10. London: L. Reeve & Co. p. pl. 21 number 102. Retrieved 3 June 2025.
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
- Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.
External links
- Sil, M.; Basak, R.; Karanth, K. P.; Aravind, N. A. (2021). ". A new species of Pila (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) from Mizoram, India". Molluscan Research. 41 (3): 204–213. Bibcode:2021MollR..41..204S. doi:10.1080/13235818.2021.1941575.
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