WoRMS taxon details
Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798)
448169 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:448169)
accepted
Species
Oliva (Olivancillaria) brasiliensis A. d'Orbigny, 1841 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation
Oliva brasiliana Lamarck, 1811 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Oliva brasiliensis Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted
Olivancillaria brasiliana (Lamarck, 1811) · unaccepted
Porphyria urceus Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)
Voluta pinguis Dillwyn, 1817 · unaccepted
marine
(of Porphyria urceus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
Distribution Argentina to Uruguay
Distribution Argentina to Uruguay [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448169 on 2026-10-11
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Voluta pinguis Dillwyn, 1817) Dillwyn, L. W. (1817). A descriptive catalogue of Recent shells, arranged according to the Linnean method; with particular attention to the synonymy. John and Arthur Arch, London, Vol. 1: 1-580 pp.; Vol. 2: 581-1092 pp. + index [29 pp.]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11670899 [details]
original description (of Oliva brasiliana Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M.de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Tarrière (<i>Terebellum</i>), Ancillaire (<i>Ancillaria</i>), Olive (<i>Oliva</i>). <em>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 16: 300-328., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3547431
page(s): p. 322-323. [details]
original description (of Oliva (Olivancillaria) brasiliensis A. d'Orbigny, 1841) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 420-421 [details]
original description (of Porphyria urceus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description (of Oliva brasiliensis Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
original description (of Oliva brasiliana Lamarck, 1811) Lamarck [J.B.M.de]. (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Tarrière (<i>Terebellum</i>), Ancillaire (<i>Ancillaria</i>), Olive (<i>Oliva</i>). <em>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 16: 300-328., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3547431
page(s): p. 322-323. [details]
original description (of Oliva (Olivancillaria) brasiliensis A. d'Orbigny, 1841) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 420-421 [details]
original description (of Porphyria urceus Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description (of Oliva brasiliensis Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Teso V. & Pastorino G. (2011) A revision of the genus <i>Olivancillaria</i> (Mollusca: Olividae) from the southwestern Atlantic. <i>Zootaxa</i> 2889: 1–34., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2889.1.1 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Argentina to Uruguay [details]
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Conchology (Olivancillaria urceus)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Malacopics (Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798) Argentina, Buenos Aires, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Conchology (Olivancillaria urceus)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Malacopics (Olivancillaria urceus (Röding, 1798) Argentina, Buenos Aires, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally
