African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Olivella zenopira (Duclos, 1835)

AfReMaS taxon details

Olivella zenopira (Duclos, 1835)

AphiaID

1474233 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1474233)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Olivella Swainson, 1831

Original name

Oliva zenopira Duclos, 1835

Synonymised names

Oliva zenopira Duclos, 1835 · unaccepted (original combination)

Olivancillaria zenopira (Duclos, 1835) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Oliva zenopira Duclos, 1835) Duclos, P. L. (1835-1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiée par monographie. Genre Olive. Paris: Institut de France. 33 plates: pls 1-12, 4bis [November 1835], pls 13-33, 18bis [March 1840]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45200561
page(s): pl. 3 figs 11-12 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Olivella zenopira (Duclos, 1835). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1474233 on 2026-08-12

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Olivella zenopira (Duclos, 1835). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1474233 on 2026-08-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2021-01-02 15:35:34Z

created

Gofas, Serge

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original description (of Oliva zenopira Duclos, 1835) Duclos, P. L. (1835-1840). Histoire naturelle générale et particulière de tous les genres de coquilles univalves marines a l'état vivant et fossile publiée par monographie. Genre Olive. Paris: Institut de France. 33 plates: pls 1-12, 4bis [November 1835], pls 13-33, 18bis [March 1840]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45200561
page(s): pl. 3 figs 11-12 [details]

basis of record Rolán E. & Ryall P. (1999). Checklist of the Angolan marine molluscs = Lista de los moluscos marinos de Angola. Reseñas Malacológicas (Sociedad Española de Malacología). 10: 1-132.
page(s): 44 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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