Agaronia leonardhilli
| Agaronia leonardhilli | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Olividae |
| Genus: | Agaronia |
| Species: | A. leonardhilli
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| Binomial name | |
| Agaronia leonardhilli Petuch, 1987[1]
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Agaronia leonardhilli is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Olividae, the olives.[2]
Description[edit]
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[edit]
Locus typicus: "Off Roatan Island, Honduras."[4]
References[edit]
- ^ 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.
- ^ Agaronia leonardhilli Petuch, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 28 April 2010.
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF
- ^ Petuch, E.J. 1987-New Caribbean Molluscan Faunas, page 68. Publ: CERF