Agagus
| Agagus | |
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| Agagus agagus shell | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Trochidae |
| Genus: | Agagus Jousseaume, 1894[1] |
| Type species | |
| Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894
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Agagus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.[2]
Species
[edit]Species within the genus Agagus include:
- Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894[3]
- Agagus stellamaris Herbert, 1991
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]
References
[edit]- ^ Jousseaume F. (1894). "Diagnose des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques". Bull. Soc. philom. Paris (8)6: 98-105. page 99.
- ^ Agagus Jousseaume, 1894. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 21 June 2012.
- ^ Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 1 May 2010.
- ^ Zuschin, Janssen, Baal - Gastropods and their habitats from the northern red Sea, Part I Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Cycloneritimorpha.pdf Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 111 A 73-158, Wien April 2009
External links
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- Jousseaume [F.P.] 1894. Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 8(6): 98-105
- Herbert D.G. (1991) A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900
- D.G. Herbert (1990), A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae); Journal of Natural History Volume 25, Issue 4, 1991
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