Jump to content

Agagus agagus

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Agagus agagus
Apertural view of a shell of Agagus agagus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Agagus
Species:
A. agagus
Binomial name
Agagus agagus
Jousseaume, 1894
Synonyms
  • Gibbula (Enida) townsendi G.B. Sowerby III, 1895
  • Gibbula perspectiva G.B. Sowerby III, 1900
  • Gibbula townsendi Sowerby III, 1895
  • Notogibbula townsendi (Sowerby III, 1895)

Agagus agagus is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[1]

Description

[edit]

The shell grows to a length of 9 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The umbilicate shell has a depressed conical shape with a swollen base. Its color is a vivid white with green spots. It contains 6½ sharp declining whorls with longitudinal oblique striae and spiral ribs. The aperture is subquadrangular. The outer lip is sharp.

Distribution

[edit]

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Tanzania and South Africa.

References

[edit]
  1. ^ Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 8 June 2012.
  • Kilburn, R. N. 1972. Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (2), with the description of new species and subspecies of Conus, Nassarius, Vexillum and Demoulia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(2):391-437, 15 figs
  • Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 41
  • Herbert D.G. (1991). A revision of the genus Agagaus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25:883-900.
  • Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp.
[edit]