African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Olividae Latreille, 1825

AphiaID

23082 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:23082)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Oliva Bruguière, 1789

Parent

Olivoidea Latreille, 1825

Original name

Olividae Latreille, 1825

Direct children (14)

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Subfamily Agaroniinae Olsson, 1956
1. Genus Agaronia J. E. Gray, 1839
2. Genus Hiatula Swainson, 1831 accepted as Agaronia J. E. Gray, 1839 (invalid: junior homonym of Hiatula Modeer, 1793)
Subfamily Olivancillariinae A. N. Golikov & Starobogatov, 1975
1. Genus Olivancillaria A. d'Orbigny, 1841
Subfamily Olivellinae Troschel, 1869
1. Genus Callianax H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853
2. Genus Olivella Swainson, 1831
Subfamily Olivinae Latreille, 1825
1. Genus Oliva Bruguière, 1789
2. Genus Americoliva Petuch, 2013 accepted as Oliva (Americoliva) Petuch, 2013 represented as Oliva Bruguière, 1789
3. Genus Miniaceoliva Petuch & Sargent, 1986 accepted as Oliva (Miniaceoliva) Petuch & Sargent, 1986 represented as Oliva Bruguière, 1789
4. Genus Omogymna E. von Martens, 1897 accepted as Oliva (Omogymna) E. von Martens, 1897 represented as Oliva Bruguière, 1789
5. Genus Porphyria Röding, 1798 accepted as Oliva (Porphyria) Röding, 1798 represented as Oliva Bruguière, 1789

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Latreille, P. A. (1825). Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposé succinctement et dans un ordre analytique avec l'indication de leurs genres. Paris: J. B. Baillière. 570 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16094
page(s): 198; note: Original spelling Olivaria. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Olividae Latreille, 1825. 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://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23082 on 2026-01-25

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. Olividae Latreille, 1825. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=23082 on 2026-01-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2009-02-02 11:06:43Z

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Gofas, Serge

2009-08-14 07:25:27Z

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2010-03-18 10:19:11Z

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Tran, Bastien

2011-05-02 17:58:21Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2025-12-24 20:42:13Z

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original description Latreille, P. A. (1825). Familles naturelles du règne animal, exposé succinctement et dans un ordre analytique avec l'indication de leurs genres. Paris: J. B. Baillière. 570 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16094
page(s): 198; note: Original spelling Olivaria. [details]

basis of record Kantor Yu.I., Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Bonillo C. & Bouchet P. (2017). Returning to the roots: morphology, molecular phylogeny and classification of the Olivoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180(3): 493-541., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw003 [details]

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Olividae)
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