Pila olea

{{Short description|Species of gastropod}} {{Cleanup reorganize|date=June 2025}} {{Speciesbox | image = Pila olea 001.jpg |image_caption= drawing of a shell of ''Pila olea'' (holotype) | status = DD | status_system = IUCN3.1 | status_ref = | taxon = Pila olea | authority = (Reeve, 1856) | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = ''Ampullaria olea'' <small>Reeve, 1856</small> superseded combination }}

'''''Pila olea''''', common name the '''olive ampullaria''', is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the apple snails family, Ampullariidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|1644126 |''Pila olea'' (Reeve, 1856)|3 June 2025}}</ref>

==Description== (Original description) The shell is subglobose and scarcely umbilicated, with a rather short spire. Its whorls are rounded and longitudinally striated. It appears shining olive, encircled with two distant, narrow, blackish-red bands. The aperture is pyriformly oval.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Reeve |first1=L.A. |title=Monograph of the genus Ampullaria. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 10 |date=1856 |publisher=L. Reeve & Co. |location=London |page=pl. 21 number 102 |url=https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127133 |access-date=3 June 2025}} {{source-attribution}}</ref>

==Distribution== This species is found in India.

==References== {{Reflist}} * Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.

==External links== * {{cite journal |last1=Sil, M.; Basak, R.; Karanth, K. P.; Aravind, N. A. |title=. A new species of Pila (Gastropoda: Ampullariidae) from Mizoram, India |journal=Molluscan Research |date=2021 |volume=41 |issue=3 |pages=204–213 |doi=10.1080/13235818.2021.1941575 |bibcode=2021MollR..41..204S |url=https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2021.1941575|url-access=subscription }}

olea Category:Gastropods described in 1856 Category:Gastropods of Asia Category:Taxa named by Lovell Augustus Reeve