Cupidoliva nympha

Cupidoliva nympha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Cupidoliva
Species:
C. nympha
Binomial name
Cupidoliva nympha
(A. Adams & Angas, 1864)[1]

Cupidoliva nympha is an Australian species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olives.[2][3] Originally described in the genus Olivella by Arthur Adams in 1864, and later as the type of a subgenus by Axel Olsson in 1956, it is currently considered the type species of Cupidoliva as per Tom Iredale in 1924.[2][4][5][6]

Description

This small-medium species attains a length of 15 mm, though usually being smaller.[6][7] It closely resembles Olivella, in the radula with a multicuspid rhachidian (central) tooth, having an operculum unlike the genus Oliva, and swimming using metapodial flaps like in O. minuta.[4][8][9] The shell is white and semi-opaque, slender, and spindle-shaped, with a high spire, deep suture channels, a narrow aperture flattened towards the front, a thin and smooth lip, a thick and wide fasciole around the aperture, a folded pillar on a smooth columella with a two-pointed bottom, and a weak callus at the end of the aperture.[3][5][6][7]

Distribution

This species occurs off the coast of Australia, first being described from Port Stephens in New South Wales.[2][3][7]

References

  1. ↑ Adams, A. & Angas, G.F. (1864) Descriptions of new species of shells from the Australian Seas, in the collection of George French Angas. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1863, 418–428, pl. 37.. World Register of Marine Species.
  2. 1 2 3 Cupidoliva nympha (A. Adams & Angas, 1864). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.
  3. 1 2 3 Adams, Arthur; Angas, G. French (10 November 1863). "Descriptions of New Species of Shells from the Australian Seas, in the Collection of G. French Angas". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 422–423. ISSN 0370-2774. LCCN 86640225. OCLC 1779524 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. 1 2 Iredale, Tom (25 June 1924). "Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49 (197): 183, 259. ISSN 0370-047X. OCLC 1755950 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. 1 2 Absalão, Ricardo S.; Pimenta, Alexandre D. (26 March 2002). "A new subgenus and three new species of Brazilian deep water Olivella Swainson, 1831 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Olivellidae) collected by the RV Marion Dufresne in 1987". Zoosystema. 25 (2) (published 27 June 2003): 177–185 – via ResearchGate.
  6. 1 2 3 Olsson, Axel A. (1956). "Studies on the genus Olivella". Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. 108: 158, 164, 166–167, 217, 221. JSTOR 4064521 – via JSTOR.
  7. 1 2 3 Beechey, Des. "Cupidoliva nympha". The Seashells of New South Wales. Retrieved 30 July 2026.
  8. ↑ Smith, Brian J. (1998). "Family Olividae". In Beesley, Pamela L.; Ross, Graham J. B.; Wells, Alice (eds.). Mollusca: The Southern Synthesis (Part B). Fauna of Australia. Vol. 5. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing. pp. 835–837. ISBN 0643057560 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  9. ↑ Peile, A. J. (11 November 1921). "Some notes on Radulae including that of Columbarium". Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 15: 18. ISSN 0025-1194. LCCN gs16000676. OCLC 1909246 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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