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Agaronia lutaria

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Agaronia lutaria
Shell of Agaronia lutaria (specimen at Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Agaronia
Species:
A. lutaria
Binomial name
Agaronia lutaria
(Röding, 1798)[1]
Synonyms[2]
  • Oliva (Olivancillaria) subulata Lamarck, 1811
  • Oliva subulata Lamarck, 1811
  • Porphyria lutaria Röding, 1798 (original combination)

Agaronia lutaria is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]

Description

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The length of the shell attains 44 mm. [3]

(Original description in Latin) The brown-plumbeous is cylindrical-subulate. It is adorned with spots along the upper edge of the whorls. The shell is broadening towards the base, which is obliquely tinged with yellow. [4]

Distribution

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This marine species occurs off Indonesia. [2]

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