Lettered olive

Lettered olive
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Oliva
Species:	O. sayana
Binomial name
	Oliva sayana; Ravenel, 1834
Synonyms
	Oliva citrina C. W. Johnson, 1911 ; Oliva contoyensis Petuch, 1988 ; Oliva litterata Lamarck, 1811 ; Oliva maya Petuch & Sargent, 1986 ; Oliva sayana Ravenel, 1834 ; Strephona litterata (Lamarck, 1811) ;

The lettered olive, Oliva sayana, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olive shells, olive snails, or olives.^[3] ^[4]

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^ Malacolog 4.1.1: Western Atlantic Mollusk Species Database. Retrieved April 2010.
^ Hardy, Eddie. "Oliva (Americoliva) sayana". www.gastropods.com. Retrieved 28 November 2018.
^ MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Oliva sayana Ravenel, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208387 on 2021-11-02