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title: "Lettered Olive"
description: "Oliva sayana — Altri animali. The lettered olive, Oliva sayana, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olive shells, olive snails, or olives."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/lettered-olive
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Lettered Olive

> Oliva sayana — Altri animali. The lettered olive, Oliva sayana, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olive shells, olive snails, or olives.

- Scientific name: *Oliva sayana*
- Category: `other` (Altri animali)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mare e costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 5200
- Wikidata: [Q3168825](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3168825)
- iNaturalist taxon: [208733](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/208733)

## Names

- en: Lettered Olive
- es: Caracol aceituna
- fr: Olive lettrée

## Countries with the most observations

US (4706), MX (13), TT (7)

## Summary

The lettered olive, Oliva sayana, is a species of large predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Olividae, the olive shells, olive snails, or olives.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettered_olive

## Photo

![Lettered Olive](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/lettered-olive/medium.jpg)

Photo: Conway Hawn · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/287572621

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/lettered-olive?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).