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Taxonomy > Olividae > Oliva < Previous species - Next species > (within the family) Oliva spicata (Röding, 1798) Keen (1971) Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru. - p. 624 Brusca (1980) Common intertidal marine invertebrates of the Gulf of California. 2nd edition. - p. 182 Skoglund (2002) Panamic province molluscan literature: additions and changes from 1971 through 2000. III Gastropoda. - p. 147 Sterba (2004) Olividae - A collectors Guide - p. 108, 110 Ortíz-Arellano & Flores-Campaña (2008) Catalogo descriptivo e ilustrado de los moluscos de la zona Intermareal de las islas de la bahía de Navachiste, Sinaloa, México. - p. 127 [as Oliva (Strephona) spicata melchersi] Hunon et al. (2009) Olividae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). - p. 216 Bertsch & Aguilar Rosas (2016) Invertebrados Marinos del Noroeste de México. Marine Invertebrates of Northwest Mexico. - p. 229 Battaglia & Bertoli Battaglia (2020) Seashells of Las Perlas / Conchiglie delle Isole delle Perle. - p. 79 Gurgo Salice & Cáceres (2021) Baja Californian sea shells. - p. 100 Statistics Frequency very common - 70 localities (35.53 %) Sediment 38 (0 fine >> 100 coarse sediment) Size and comments A maximum length of 85mm is indicated in the literature; beach finds remain below 60mm. Images Length 48.2mm. Taxonomy > Olividae > Oliva < Previous species - Next species > (within the family)