The Lettered Olive 🐌 is a species of large predatory sea snails, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olive shells, olive snails, or olives. The lettered olive typically lives in near-shore waters on shallow sand flats near inlets. The empty shell is occasionally, or sometimes commonly, washed up onto beaches. The shell is 2 1/2 inch long max size this one is on the larger size .The olive is a smooth shiny, cylindrical-shaped shell with with a short spire .The aperture is narr