About this species
Oliva reticulata, common name the blood olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olive snails.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Oliva reticulata”, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the article
Where and when
Where it has been recorded
Worldwide
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Best months
Worldwide (open data)
- January: 4 records
- February: 4 records
- March: 1 records
- April: 2 records
- May: 4 records
- June: 2 records
- July: 7 records
- August: 2 records
- September: 0 records
- October: 0 records
- November: 1 records
- December: 2 records
Depth and water temperature
Water temperature
Recorded in surface water of 20–30 °C
Names and classification
- English
- Blood olive, blood olive
Names in 3 more languages
- German
- Blut-Olive
- Japanese
- クチベニマクラ
- Simplified Chinese
- 金唇榧螺
Other scientific names: Oliva evania, Oliva sanguinolenta, Porphyria reticulata
Similar species
- Gold-mouthed olive
Oliva miniacea
- Bulb-shaped olive
Oliva bulbiformis
- Inflated olive
Oliva bulbosa
- Carnelian olive
Oliva carneola
Sources and credits
Names and taxonomy: WoRMS (CC BY 4.0) and the GBIF Backbone (CC BY 4.0). Photos: iNaturalist observers, each under the licence shown (CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA).
- Depth, temperature, months and maps: records from OBIS and GBIF under CC0 or CC BY.
- Descriptions: Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA, each linked to its article.
- Conservation status as published by GBIF (IUCN Red List).
- 239 open-data records from 1955 to 2010.
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