Pila olea

Pila olea
drawing of a shell of Pila olea (holotype)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
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Ampullaria olea Reeve, 1856 superseded combination

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]

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.

References

  1. ^ Pila olea (Reeve, 1856). 3 June 2025. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  2. ^ Reeve, L.A. (1856). Monograph of the genus Ampullaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10. London: L. Reeve & Co. p. pl. 21 number 102. Retrieved 3 June 2025. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
  • Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.