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Agariste phrygium

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Species of gastropod

Agariste phrygium
Shell of Agariste phrygium (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Lepetellida
Family: Fissurellidae
Subfamily: Emarginulinae
Genus: Agariste
Species: A. phrygium
Binomial name
Agariste phrygium
(Herbert & Kilburn, 1986)
Synonyms

Emarginula phrygium Herbert & Kilburn, 1986 (original combination)

Agariste phrygium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.

Description

The height of the shell attains 8.3 mm, its base measures 9.0 mm x 6.1 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Indian Ocean off KwaZulu-Natal, Walters Shoal and the eastern seaboard of South Africa at depths between 420 m and 599 m.

References

  1. Herbert D.G. & Kilburn R.N. (1986). Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Emarginula, Emarginella, Puncturella, Fissurisepta, and Rimula. South Africa Journal of Zoology 21(1):1-27.. World Register of Marine Species, Retrieved 2012-12-31.
  2. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Agariste phrygium (Herbert & Kilburn, 1986). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1460878 on 2020-11-01
  3. Herbert D.G. (2024). "The Vetigastropoda (Mollusca) of Walters Shoal, with descriptions of two new genera and thirty new species". European Journal of Taxonomy. 923: 1–119. Retrieved 31 October 2024.  This article incorporates text from this source, which is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
  • Landau B., Marquet R. & Grigis, M. (2003). The Early Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 1: Vetigastropoda. Palaeontos. 3: i-ii, 1-87, pl. 1-19.

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Taxon identifiers
Emarginula phrygium


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