Pseudolividae
Sign in to savePseudolividae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Olivoidea.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyPseudolividae
Habitatmarine
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 43
- Family
- Pseudolividae
- Collections
- YPM, PRI, UCMP, AM, QM, MNHN
- Recorded in
- Peru, Chile, United States, Mexico, Panama, Pakistan
Wikidata facts
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- Parent taxon
- Neogastropoda
- Image
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - RMNH.MOL.212194 - Triumphis distorta (Wood, 1828) - Pseudolividae - Mollusc shell.jpeg
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Pseudolividae is a taxonomic family of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Olivoidea.
The family name Pseudolividae is composed of the prefix "pseudo" and the word "Olividae" and thus means false olives. This refers to the fact that some of the species in this group, in particular a few of the Pseudoliva species, have shells that rather closely resemble those of the Olividae, the olives.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pseudolividae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.