Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Olividae
Parent taxon: Oliva according to A. A. Olsson and A. Harbison 1953
See also DuBar 1958
Sister taxa: Oliva (Agaronia), Oliva (Neocylindrus), Oliva (Oliva), Oliva (Omogymna), Oliva (Strephona), Oliva (Strephonella), Oliva acuminata, Oliva arenosa, Oliva bombylis, Oliva brevispira, Oliva caldania, Oliva canalifera, Oliva carneola, Oliva couvana, Oliva cristobalcoloni, Oliva cylindrica, Oliva delata, Oliva funebralis, Oliva futheyana, Oliva gatunensis, Oliva giraudi, Oliva harrisi, Oliva idonea, Oliva immortua, Oliva indica, Oliva junghuhni, Oliva laumontiana, Oliva maura, Oliva media, Oliva meganosensis, Oliva miniacea, Oliva misti, Oliva mitrata, Oliva mitreola, Oliva peruviana, Oliva pichincha, Oliva reticularis, Oliva simonsoni, Oliva spicata, Oliva subplicata, Oliva subulata, Oliva tjidamrensis, Oliva trinidadensis, Oliva tuberaensis, Oliva utriculus, Oliva valens, Oliva vetusta
Subtaxa: Oliva (Ispidula) sayana Oliva (Ispidula) tisiphona
Ecology: epifaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Dominican Republic (1 collection), United States (39: Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia), Venezuela (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Mexico (1)
• Pliocene of Colombia (1), Costa Rica (1), Ecuador (2), Mexico (1), United States (7: Florida), Venezuela (7)
• Miocene of Ecuador (2)
Total: 64 collections each including a single occurrence