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Black Olive
Oliva vidua
Oliva vidua, common name the black olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.
From the article Oliva vidua on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
Description
The length of the shell varies between 28 mm and 70 mm. This species was responsible for five fatal cases of neurotoxic food poisoning in Sabah, Malaysia.
Range & habitat
Oliva vidua is endemic to the tropical Indo-Pacific Ocean, occurring in the Mascarene Basin, the Bay of Bengal, the Philippines, Indonesia, Australia and New Guinea.
Wikipedia: “Distribution”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 497663.