Agagus

Agagus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Vetigastropoda
Superfamily: Trochoidea (superfamily)
Family: Trochidae
Genus: Agagus
Jousseaume, 1894 [1]
Type species
Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894

Agagus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]

Species

Species within the genus Agagus include:

Martin Zuschin, Ronald Janssen and Christian Baal (2009) also mention an Agagus n.sp found in the Red Sea, that differs from A. agagus by its smooth base and from A. stellamaris (found in the Indian Ocean) by its higher conical shape. [4]

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