Dear Conch-L'ers,
I was going through my olive collection with the great new book of Greifeneder & Tursch and came across a strange species. The Olive book describes that truncata has (amongst others) as main feature the cogwheel pattern on the shoulder, a grey aperture and the brown stripe inside the notch. I have some species from Cebaco Island in Panama which are all exactly as described for oliva truncata. One is however different, by having the same features only having a lilac aperture. I have named this one in the past oliva spicata violacea, but it is not oliva spicata. Is it possible that oliva truncata also has a lilac aperture?
Greetings from Holland,

> Fred L.J. Vervaet
        the Netherlands, Amsterdam