Agaronia acuminata
| Agaronia acuminata | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Agaronia acuminata boavistensis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Olivoidea |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Agaronia |
| Species: | A. acuminata |
| Binomial name | |
| Agaronia acuminata (Lamarck, 1811) | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Agaronia acuminata, common name the pointed ancilla, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[1]
Subspecies
- Agaronia acuminata acuminata (Lamarck, 1811)
- Agaronia acuminata boavistensis Burnay & Conceicao, 1986
Description
The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 80 mm.
Distribution
This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara, Gabon and Angola.
References
- 1 2 Agaronia acuminata (Lamarck, 1811). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 13 November 2012.
- Teso V. & Pastorino G. (2011) A revision of the genus Olivancillaria (Mollusca: Olividae) from the southwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa 2889: 1–34
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