Short Description:

Shells of the family Olividae tend to be cylindrical, smooth and shiny, and variously patterned with numerous fine wrinkles. The spire is fairly low; the aperture is long, smooth, and without teeth; and, the columella shows folds. Like many gastropods, these molluscs maintain a highly polished shell, by pulling their mantle flaps over the exposed surface.

Shell highly polished, without any sculpture other then fine growth lines ; widest part of the aperture (near its lower end) less then half the diameter of the shell; operculum inconspicuous; The overall colour is different variants of brown bands seperated by a white line

Size:

30mm

Behaviour:

Diet:

Distribution:

They are distributed in warm and tropical seas 

Depth:

 20m

Habitat:

Typically in sandy substrata

• The living shores of Southern Africa
   George Branch, Margo Branch
• Topseashells.com
  http://shells.tricity.wsu.edu/ArcherdShellCollection/Gastropoda/Olividae.html
• Wild Fact sheets
  http://www.wildsingapore.com/wildfacts/mollusca/gastropoda/olividae/olividae.htm

• None on database