Oliva porphyria

Oliva porphyria
Shell of Oliva porphyria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Oliva
Species:
O. porphyria
Binomial name
Oliva porphyria
Synonyms
  • Oliva fasciata Röding, P.F., 1798
  • Oliva leveriana Perry, G., 1811
  • Oliva panamensis Montfort, P.D. de, 1810
  • Oliva tentorium Link, H.F., 1807
  • Oliva (Porphyria) porphyria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Voluta porphyria Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)

Oliva porphyria, common name the tent olive, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2] Its shell pattern has been studied as an example of a Turing pattern that can be modeled with cellular automata.[3]

Shells of Oliva porphyria
  1. ^ Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
  2. ^ "WoRMS"
  3. ^ Meinhardt, Hans (2003). The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea Shells. Springer.