Oliva orbignyi
"The only shell remaining is the O. auricularia, D'Orb. Both Deshayes and Duclos are of opinion that D'Orbigny made some mistake: I am of quite the contrary way of thinking. We have the animal and shell given, the latter differing essentially from the O. auricularia, Lam.; and D'Orbigny might easily have thought it might belong to that variable species, as it was then supposed to be. I cannot think that such a naturalist as D'Orbigny would figure an animal and put an imaginary shell upon it; and therefore I conclude that the shell figured is the one dredged, and no other. Having arrived at this conclusion, and having carefully compared the shell figured with O. biplicata, Sow., there is no doubt in my mind of its being entirely new. In the first place, its open spire is sufficient to prevent its being mistaken for O. auricularia, and it differs from O. biplicata in not being biplicate but multiplicate, in not having the violet interior and basal band, and in having the basal band spotted —characters by which it may at once be distinguished from that species. I think the species might be named after its discoverer, O. Orbignyi.". Refers to Orbigny, 1841: Pl. 59 figs. 20-22. Recent.
