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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: Neogastropoda: Volutoidea: Olivinae

Oliva reticularis Lamarck, 1811


Range: 32.3°N to 9.4°N; 90.5°W to 61.8°W
Depth: 0 to 200 m
Maximum Reported Size: 60  mm

Synonymy

Oliva reticularis Lamarck, 1811
Dactylus reticularis (Lamarck, 1811) 
Strephona reticularis (Lamarck, 1811) 
Oliva olorinella Duclos, 1835
Oliva quersolina Duclos, 1835
Oliva memnonia Duclos, 1844
Strephona vermiculata (Gray, 1858) 
Oliva vermiculata Gray, 1858
Oliva pallida Marrat, 1867
Oliva olivacea Marrat, 1870
Oliva polita auct. non Marrat, 1870
Oliva sowerbyi Marrat, 1870
Oliva alba Mörch, 1878
Oliva castanea Mörch, 1878
Oliva fasciata Mörch, 1878
Oliva unicolor Mörch, 1878
Oliva antillensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986
Oliva bahamasensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986
Oliva finlayi Petuch & Sargent, 1986
Oliva sunderlandi Petuch, 1987
Oliva ernesti Petuch, 1990

Details


Oliva reticularis Lamarck, 1811c, p. 314, [Encyc. Meth. pl. 361, fig. 1]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Unknown
Range: 32.3°N to 9.4°N; 90.5°W to 61.8°W
Depth: 0 m
Maximum Reported Size: 45 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: East Florida; Mexico: Campeche State, Quintana Roo; Honduras: Swan Island; Colombia: Offshore islands; Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela: Gulf of Venezuela, Islas Los Roques, Isla la Tortuga; Bermuda, Bahamas: Grand Bahama Island; Cuba: North Matanzas; Puerto Rico; Virgin Islands: St. Croix; Barbuda
References: Lamarck (1811c) M; Higgins & Marrat (1877) E; Dautzenberg (1900); Olsson & McGinty (1958) S; Fernández Milera (1998); Sterba (2004)
Comments: 26°N in Florida; see also reticularis auct. = circinata.
Combining Genera:  Dactylus Strephona

Oliva reticularis var. alba Mörch in Poulsen, 1878, p. 12, not figured
[Not available]
Type Locality: West Indies
Comments: Nude name.

Oliva (Strephona) antillensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986, p. 124-125, pl. 20, figs. 11-12, text-fig. 15
[Synonym]
Type Locality: South coast of Gonave Island, Haiti
Range: 18.7°N to 18.3°N; 73°W to 64.8°W
Depth: 0 m
Maximum Reported Size: 28 mm
Distribution: Haiti; Virgin Islands: St. John
References: Petuch & Sargent (1986) DNSEWM; Sterba (2004) s (of O. circinata); Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) s

Oliva (Strephona) bahamasensis Petuch & Sargent, 1986, p. 125, pl. 20, figs. 15-18, text-fig. 14
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Off the north coast of Grand Bahama Island
Range: 26.7°N ; 78°W
Depth: 200 m
Maximum Reported Size: 45 mm
Distribution: Bahamas: Grand Bahama Island
References: Petuch & Sargent (1986) DdNSEWM; Sterba (2004) s; Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) s

Oliva reticularis var. castanea Mörch in Poulsen, 1878, p. 12, not figured
[Not available]
Type Locality: West Indies
Comments: Nude name.

Oliva (Strephona) reticularis ernesti Petuch, 1990, p. 63, figs. 19-20
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Off Portobelo, Panama
Range: 16°N to 9.5°N; 86°W to 79.7°W
Depth: 40 m
Maximum Reported Size: 41 mm
Distribution: Honduras, Panama
References: Petuch (1990) DdSEM; Sterba (2003) NW; Sterba (2004); Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) s

Oliva reticularis var. fasciata Mörch in Poulsen, 1878, p. 12, not figured
[Not available]
Attributed to: Duclos
Type Locality: West Indies
Comments: Nude name.

Oliva (Strephona) finlayi Petuch & Sargent, 1986, p. 129-130, pl. 22, figs. 5-7, text fig. 14
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Matanzas Bay, Cuba
Range: 23°N ; 81.6°W
Depth: 200 m
Maximum Reported Size: 42 mm
Distribution: Cuba: North Matanzas
References: Petuch & Sargent (1986) DdNSEWM; Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) s

Oliva memnonia Duclos, 1844, 
[Synonymy uncertain]
References: Kaicher (1989a: 5497) s?

Oliva olivaceus Marrat, 1870, p. [Marrat 1871: 7-8], pl. 331, fig. 46-47, 51-53
[Synonymy uncertain]
Attributed to: Meuschen, 1787 (non-binominal)
Type Locality: Not stated (figs. 46-47); Aspinwall, Bermuda (figs. 51-53)
Range: 32.3°N ; 64.8°W
Maximum Reported Size: 42 mm
Distribution: Bermuda
Comments: Marrat (1870, pl. 4; 1871: 45) treated
O. reticularis Lamarck, 1811 as a synonym of O. olivacea Meuschen, but Meuschen's work was non-binominal, so the name must be attributed to Marrat (1870). Marrat spelled the name olivaceus on the plate (1870), and olivacea in the text (1871). Oliva olivacea has been treated as a synonym of O. reticularis by Zeigler & Porreca (1969), of O. fulgurator by Tursch & Greifeneder (2001) and of O. tisiphona by Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009), and as a valid species from Bermuda by Petuch & Sargent (1986). The only locality given by Marrat was "Aspinwall, Bermuda" (his figures 51-53), but he also illustrated a specimen from unstated locality (figs. 46-47). A lectotype designation is needed to establish the identity of the species; because Marrat included Lamarck's O. reticularis in O. olivacea, lectotype designation could make the names objective synonyms (Rosenberg, herein, 20 April 2009).

Oliva olorinella Duclos, 1835, 
[Synonym]
Range: 25°N to 18°N; 81°W to 67°W
Maximum Reported Size: 36.6 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: Florida Keys; Bahamas: Bimini; Puerto Rico
References: Sterba (2003); Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) M
Comments: According to Tursch & Greifeneder (2001), the type lot contains specimens of two species, so a lectotype designation is needed to establish the identity of the species. It is treated here as a synonym of the Western Atlantic
O. reticularis but it could prove to be O. oliva.

Oliva pallida Marrat, 1867, p. 215, [Marrat 1871, pl. 351, fig. 472]
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Eastern Seas
Maximum Reported Size: 60 mm
References: Marrat (1871) M

Oliva polita auct. non Marrat, 1870, 
[Not available]
Comments: Misidentification by Abbott (1974);
O. polita is Indo-Pacific.

Oliva quersolina Duclos, 1835,  pl. 10, fig. 7-8
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Not stated
Maximum Reported Size: 44 mm
References: Duclos (1835) M

Oliva sowerbyi Marrat, 1870, p. [Marrat 1871: 13], pl. 335, figs. 114-115
[Synonymy uncertain]
Type Locality: Jamaica
Range: 17.8°N to 18.5°N; 76.2°W to 78.3°W
Maximum Reported Size: 32 mm
Distribution: Jamaica
References: Marrat (1870) NSEWM
Comments: Non Ducros, 1857; as
sowerbyi in plate caption (1870) and index (1871) and soverbii in text (1871).

Oliva (Strephona) bifasciata sunderlandi Petuch, 1987, p. 28, pl. 3, figs. 13-14
[Synonym]
Type Locality: West of Cedar Key, Florida
Range: 29°N ; 83°W
Depth: 150 m
Maximum Reported Size: 23 mm
Distribution: USA: Florida: West Florida
References: Sterba (2004) s (of
O. circinata); Hunon, Hoarau & Robin (2009) s

Oliva reticularis var. unicolor Mörch in Poulsen, 1878, p. 12, not figured
[Not available]
Type Locality: West Indies
Comments: Nude name.

Oliva vermiculata Gray, 1858, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Lamarck
References: Petuch (1987) s
Comments: Name introduced in synonymy of
Strephona reticularis.
Combining Genera:  Strephona


Partial List of References

Duclos, P. L. 1835. Genre Olive Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière de tous les Genres de Coquilles Univalves Marines [vi], pls. 1-33, 4 bis, 18 bis Institut de France: Paris.
Lamarck, [J. B.] 1811. Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques Testacés. Tarrière. (Terebellum.) Ancillaire. (Ancillaria.) Olive. (Oliva.) Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle 16 300-328. [Stated date: -- --- 1810; true date: -- --- 1811.]
Marrat, F. P. 1867. On some new species of Oliva, and a new Trivia Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)20 213-215. [Stated date: -- Sep 1867.]
Marrat, F. P. 1870. Oliva, Bruguière Thesaurus Conchyliorum 4 pls. 328[bis]-341
Petuch, E. J. 1987. New Caribbean molluscan faunas  [v] + 154 + A1-A4, 29 pls. Coastal Education & Research Foundation: Charlottesville, Virginia. [True date: 08 Jul 1987.]
Petuch, E. J. 1990. A new molluscan faunule from the Caribbean coast of Panama Nautilus 104 57-70. [Stated date: 06 Sep 1990.]
Petuch, E. J. and D. M. Sargent. 1986. Atlas of the Living Olive Shells of the World  xv + 253 pp., 39 pls. Coastal Education & Research Foundation: Charlottesville, Virginia.
Poulsen, C. M. 1878. Catalogue of West-India Shells in the Collection of Dr. C. M. Poulsen  16 pp. Bianco Luno: Copenhagen.

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