Olivella, SWAINSON, 1831

Kantor, Yu. I., Fedosov, A. E., Puillandre, N., Bonillo, C. & Bouchet, P., 2017, Returning to the roots: morphology, molecular phylogeny and classification of the Olivoidea (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180, pp. 493-541 : 528

GENUS OLIVELLA SWAINSON, 1831 (1)

Type species: Olivella purpurata Swainson, 1831 [= Voluta dama Mawe, 1828 ]; SD, Dall (1909).

Remarks: Olivella is conchologically rather variable, and a number of (sub)genera have been proposed. Only three species were included in our molecular analysis and, based on this limited dataset, we cannot make any conclusion on the possible subgeneric division of the genus. In the following, we list the classification proposed by Olsson (1956) with some additions and corrections.