Biology:Agaronia hilli
| Agaronia hilli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Agaronia |
| Species: | A. hilli
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| Binomial name | |
| Agaronia hilli Petuch, 1987[1]
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Agaronia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]
Description
Original description: "Shell average size for genus, inflated, bulliform, with small, acuminate spire; aperture very wide and flaring; body whorl smooth, with silky texture; spire whorls almost completely covered by thick enamel deposit; anterior one-fourth of shell with thick, shiny, enamel deposit, sharply separated from silky-textured body whorl; columella thin, with several narrow, twisted plications; shell color olive-gray with speckles and small zig-zag of darker gray; spire enamel dark brownish-black; columella at posterior of aperture marked with large, blackish-brown patch; anterior enamel deposit dark brown on dorsum, fading to tan near columella; interior of aperture white, bordered with brown along inner edge of lip; columella pale tan and white; early whorls white."[3]
Distribution
Locus typicus: "Off Roatan Island, Honduras."[4]
References
- ↑ Petuch, E.J. (1987) New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas. The Coastal Education and Research Foundation, Charlottesville, Virginia, 154 pp.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
- ↑ Agaronia hilli Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF
- ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF
Wikidata ☰ Q4691363 entry
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