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Olive Snails
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Olive Snails

Olividae

Olive snails, also known as olive shells and olives, scientific name Olividae, are a taxonomic family of medium to large predatory sea snails with smooth, shiny, elongated oval-shaped shells.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Olivinae

subfamilyOlivinae

Dwarf Olive Snails

subfamilyOlivellinae

Olivancillariinae

subfamilyOlivancillariinae

Agaroniinae

subfamilyAgaroniinae

Lamprodomina

genusLamprodomina

Calyptolivinae

subfamilyCalyptolivinae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 61805.