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Felicioliva kaleontina (Duclos, 1835)

Oliva elegante, Elegant olive

(O. kaleontina) Length: 42 mm.

(O. kaleontina) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), subtidal, sandy bottom.

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Olivoidea

Family
Olividae

Genus
Felicioliva

Species
kaleontina

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Oliva kaleontina Duclos, 1835, Vullietoliva kaleontina (Duclos, 1835) (Horton et al., 2021); (O. kaleontina) AMNH: 9672, ANSP: 111594, 170359, LACM: A. 2777, A. 5498, CAS: 3559, 38974, CDRS: 487, 1102, CLHI: 97-239 (CDRS), FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993

Origin: Native

Distribution

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: (O. kaleontina) Gulf of California to Peru and Ecuador including Galapagos Islands

References

  • Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
  • Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
  • Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
  • Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Felicioliva kaleontina", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19961. Accessed 7 June 2026.