Pila olea

Species of gastropod From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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]

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Pila olea
drawing of a shell of Pila olea (holotype)
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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Ampullaria olea Reeve, 1856 superseded combination

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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.

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