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{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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{{Taxobox
| name = ''Oleacina''
| image = Alecton discoidalis and Oleacina.png
| image_caption = A firefly larva ''[[Alecton discoidalis]]'' feeding on ''Oleacina'' sp.
| regnum = [[Animal]]ia
| phylum = [[Mollusca]]
| classis = [[Gastropoda]]
| unranked_superfamilia = clade [[Heterobranchia]]<br/>
clade [[Euthyneura]]<br/>
clade [[Panpulmonata]]<br/>
clade [[Eupulmonata]]<br/>
clade [[Stylommatophora]]<br/>
informal group [[Sigmurethra]]
| superfamilia = [[Testacelloidea]]
| familia = [[Oleacinidae]]
| subfamilia = [[Oleacininae]]
| genus = '''''Oleacina'''''
| genus_authority = [[Peter Friedrich Röding|Röding]], 1798<ref>[[Peter Friedrich Röding|Röding P. F.]] (1798). ''Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia &  multivalvia''. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.</ref>
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'''''Oleacina''''' is a [[genus]] of air-breathing [[land snail]]s, [[terrestrial molluscs|terrestrial]] [[pulmonate]] [[gastropod]] [[mollusk]]s in the family [[Oleacinidae]].

''Oleacina'' is the type genus of the family Oleacinidae.<ref>{{Bouchet 2005}}</ref>

== Ecology ==
Predators of ''Oleacina'' include larvae of the firefly bug ''[[Alecton discoidalis]]'' in Cuba.<ref name="Rios 2010">Rios O. M. & Quinta M. H. (2010). "Larval Feeding Habits of the Cuban Endemic Firefly ''Alecton discoidalis'' Laporte (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)". ''[[Psyche (entomological journal)|Psyche]]'' '''2010''', Article ID 149879, 5 pages, {{doi|10.1155/2010/149879|doi-access=free}}.</ref>

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[[Category:Oleacinidae]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Peter Friedrich Röding]]
[[Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot]]

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