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
	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

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 80 mm.

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off the Western Sahara, Gabon and Angola.

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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