MolluscaBase - Oliva caerulea (Röding, 1798)

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Oliva caerulea (Röding, 1798)

AphiaID

208388 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208388)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Oliva Bruguière, 1789

Original name

Porphyria caerulea Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Oliva (Miniaceoliva) caerulea (Röding, 1798) · alternative representation

Oliva episcopalis Lamarck, 1810 · unaccepted

Oliva lugubris Lamarck, 1811 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Porphyria caerulea Röding, 1798 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Oliva caerulea caerulea (Röding, 1798)
Subspecies Oliva caerulea ponderi Petuch & Sargent, 1986

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Porphyria caerulea Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Oliva caerulea (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208388 on 2025-06-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-01-20 10:24:07Z

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Tran, Bastien

2010-03-18 10:19:11Z

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Tran, Bastien

2012-04-04 02:27:37Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-07-15 20:03:53Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Oliva episcopalis Lamarck, 1810) Lamarck [J.B.M.de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Tarrière (Terebellum), Ancillaire (Ancillaria), Olive (Oliva). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 16: 300-328., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3547431 [details]

original description (of Porphyria caerulea Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

original description (of Oliva lugubris Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M.de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Tarrière (Terebellum), Ancillaire (Ancillaria), Olive (Oliva). Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 16: 300-328., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3547431
page(s): 517 [details]

basis of record Vervaet F. & Recourt P. pers. com., January 2010 [details]

Other

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 155. [details]

additional source Kilburn, R.N. (1980). The genus Oliva (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Olividae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum. 24(1): 221–231.
page(s): 228. [details]

additional source Habe, T. (1992). Illustrations of the Philippine Marine Gastropods Described by Paul Bartsch in 1918. VENUS (The Japanese Journals of Malacology). 50(4):296-302. [details] Available for editors

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