Agatha (gastropod)
| Agatha | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Clade: | Heterobranchia |
| Clade: | Euthyneura |
| Clade: | Panpulmonata |
| Superfamily: | Pyramidelloidea |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Genus: | Agatha (gastropod) A. Adams, 1860[1] |
| Type species | |
| Agatha virgo A. Adams, 1860 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Amathis A. Adams, 1861 (objective synonym) | |
Agatha is a small genus of minute sea snails or marine gastropod mollusks within the subfamily Syrnolinae, which is a part of the family Pyramidellidae.[2]
They have bilateral symmetry, and only have endoderm and ectoderm tissues.
The species of this genus are ectoparasites on other invertebrates.
Distribution
- Marine
Species
- † Agatha alexanderi (Marwick, 1929)
- Agatha amabilis Nomura, 1936
- Agatha australis (Angas, 1871)
- Agatha brevis Yokoyama, 1922
- Agatha filia (Melvill, 1893)
- Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
- Agatha laevis (Angas, 1867)
- † Agatha otaioensis Laws, 1940
- Agatha pacei (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906)
- † Agatha pittensis (Marwick, 1928)
- Agatha placida Nomura, 1936
- Agatha simplex (Angas, 1871)
- Agatha vestalis Melvill, 1910
- Agatha virgo Weisbord, 1962
- Species brought into synonymy
- Agatha angasi (Tryon, 1886): synonym of Syrnola angasi (Tryon, 1886)
- Agatha infrequens Nomura, 1937: synonym of Odostomia infrequens (Nomura, 1937)
- Agatha lepidula Habe, 1961: synonym of Tibersyrnola lepidula (Habe, 1961)
References
- ↑ Adams A. (1860). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)6: 422.
- ↑ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Agatha A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599126 on 2012-08-27
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