WoRMS name details

Astraea olivacea (W. Wood, 1828)

575612 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:575612)

 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Trochus olivaceus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 16, 56, pl. 5 Trochus fig. 3 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Astraea olivacea (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575612 on 2026-06-25
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2011-07-04 09:51:55Z
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2011-10-05 19:30:45Z
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2021-10-11 23:27:42Z
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2022-08-30 07:32:28Z
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2025-11-29 20:12:22Z
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Nomenclature

original description (of Trochus olivaceus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 16, 56, pl. 5 Trochus fig. 3 [details] 

basis of record Keen, A. M. (1971). Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Peru. ed. 2. Stanford University Press. xv, 1064 pp., 22 pls. [details]