Agaronia lutaria

Agaronia lutaria
Shell of Agaronia lutaria (specimen at Natural History Museum Rotterdam)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Olividae
Genus:	Agaronia
Species:	A. lutaria
Binomial name
Agaronia lutaria (Röding, 1798) [1]
Synonyms [2]
Oliva (Olivancillaria) subulataLamarck, 1811 Oliva subulataLamarck, 1811 Porphyria lutariaRöding, 1798 (original combination)

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

Description

The length of the shell attains 44 mm. ^[3]

Shell size gets up to 55 mm.

(Original description in Latin) The brown-plumbeous is cylindrical-subulate. It is adorned with spots along the upper edge of the whorls. The shell is broadening towards the base, which is obliquely tinged with yellow. ^[4]

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Indonesia. ^[2]

References

1. Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus Cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten M. D. p. d. pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia et multivalvia.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 28 April 2010.
2. Agaronia lutaria (Röding, 1798) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 28 April 2010.
3. Gbif.org: Agaronia lutaria
4. Lamarck (J.B.M.de). (1811). Suite de la détermination des espèces de Mollusques testacés. Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 16: 300-328. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .

External links

• Tan S.K. (Siong Kiat), Ng H.E. [(Eng), Chan S.Y. (Sow Yan)& Nguang L.H.S. (Leo H.S.). (2019). A review of the Recent Agaronia Gray, 1839 (Caenogastropoda: Olividae) of the Sundaic region, with description of a new species. Occasional Molluscan Papers. 7: 1-19