Pila olea, common name the olive ampullaria, is a species of freshwater snail with an operculum, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the apple snails family, Ampullariidae.

Description (Original description) The shell is subglobose and scarcely umbilicated, with a rather short spire. Its whorls are rounded and longitudinally striated. It appears shining olive, encircled with two distant, narrow, blackish-red bands. The aperture is pyriformly oval.

Distribution This species is found in India.

References

Subba Rao M.V. (1989). Handbook: freshwater molluscs of India. Zoological Survey of India, Calcutta. i-xxiii,1-289.

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