Pila olea

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. ^[1]

Pila olea
drawing of a shell of Pila olea (holotype)
Conservation status
Data Deficient  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Architaenioglossa
Family:	Ampullariidae
Genus:	Pila
Species:	P. olea
Binomial name
Pila olea (Reeve, 1856)
Synonyms
Ampullaria olea Reeve, 1856 superseded combination

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.^[2]

Distribution

This species is found in India.