Agaronia hilli
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Genus: Agaronia
Species:
A. hilli
Binomial name
Agaronia hilli
Petuch, 1987[1]

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

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ Agaronia hilli Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
  3. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF
  4. ↑ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF


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