• Title/Summary/Keyword: Olividae

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A New Record of Amalda rubiginosa (Olividae: Gastropoda) from Korea

  • Lee, Sang-Hwa;Park, Tae Seo;Park, Joong-Ki
    • The Korean Journal of Malacology
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    • v.31 no.3
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    • pp.253-255
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    • 2015
  • The family Olividae includes predatory species with medium-sized, glossy, elongated oval-shaped shell. As sand-dwellers, they are broadly distributed in tropical and subtropical oceans. They feed mostly on other mollusks and carrions including sea snails and bivalves. To date, two species in the genus Amalda (subfamily Ancillinae) have been reported in Korean waters. In this study, Amalda rubiginosa (Swainson, 1823) was collected from Korean waters and morphologically described in details as a first record.