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Olivella klappenbachi
Shell of Olivella klappenbachi (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Olivella
Species:	O. klappenbachi
Binomial name
Olivella klappenbachi Absalão & Pimenta, 2003
Synonyms
Olivella (Olivina) klappenbachi Absalão & Pimenta, 2003 (basionym)

Olivella klappenbachi is a species of small sea snail, marine gastropod mollusk in the subfamily Olivellinae, in the family Olividae, the olives. Species in the genus Olivella are commonly called dwarf olives.

Description

The length of the shell attains 5.8 mm.

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Distribution

This marine species occurs off Southeast Brazil.

References

1. Absalao & Pimenta. 2003. Zoosystema 25 (2): 177–185. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
2. Olivella klappenbachi Absalão & Pimenta, 2003. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.

• Pimenta, A.D. & Simone, L.R.L. (2021). Morphology of two deep-sea Olivella from the southwestern Atlantic, with a record of a radula-less Olivellinae species (Neogastropoda: Olivoidea: Olividae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 150(1): 31-43.

External links

• Absalão, R. S. & Pimenta, A. D. (2003). 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): 177-185.

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