Agaronia leonardhilli

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

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

Description

Original description: "Shell narrow and very elongated; spire high and elevated; one-half of spire whorls covered by enamel; anterior enamel deposit two-toned in color, with posterior half being dark brown and anterior half being gray or white; aperture narrow; columella narrow, with twisted plications; shell color gray with numerous large, dark brown, zig-zag, longitudinal flammules; on dorsum, zig-zag flammules only extend down posterior half of shell, leaving wide, clear gray band around anterior half; edge of shoulder along suture marked with conspicuous, large, intermittent, dark brown patches; spire enamel grayish-brown; interior of aperture brown."[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 leonardhilli 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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