Agaronia acuminata

Agaronia acuminata
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]
  • Agaronia (Agaronia) lutaria Marrat, F.P., 1871
  • Agaronia (Agaronia) subulata Reeve, L.A., 1850
  • Agaronia (Anazola) acuminata acuminata (Lamarck, 1811)
  • Oliva acuminata Lamarck, 1811 (basionym)

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. 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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