Agaronia hilli

Agaronia hilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]

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]

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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