Agagus
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Agagus agagus 003.jpg
| image_caption = Agagus agagus shell
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| taxon = Agagus
| authority = Jousseaume, 1894Jousseaume F. (1894). "Diagnose des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques". Bull. Soc. philom. Paris (8)6: 98-105. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99676#page/432/mode/1up page 99].
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| type_species = Agagus agagus
| type_species_authority = Jousseaume, 1894
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Agagus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.{{WRMS species|206712|Agagus Jousseaume, 1894||21 June 2012}}
Species
Species within the genus Agagus include:
- Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894{{WRMS species|216290|Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894||1 May 2010}}
- Agagus stellamaris Herbert, 1991
Martin Zuschin, Ronald Janssen and Christian Baal (2009) also mention an Agagus n.sp found in the Red Sea, that differs from A. agagus by its smooth base and from A. stellamaris (found in the Indian Ocean) by its higher conical shape.[http://verlag.nhm-wien.ac.at/pdfs/111A_073158_Zuschin.pdf Zuschin, Janssen, Baal - Gastropods and their habitats from the northern red Sea, Part I Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Cycloneritimorpha.pdf Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 111 A 73-158, Wien April 2009]
References
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External links
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- [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31946446 Jousseaume [F.P.] 1894. Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 8(6): 98-105]
- [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222939100770581?journalCode=tnah20#.Us0XSdLuJ8E Herbert D.G. (1991) A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900]
- [http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00222939100770581#.UvjeOGJ5N8E D.G. Herbert (1990), A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae); Journal of Natural History Volume 25, Issue 4, 1991]
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Category:Taxa named by Félix Pierre Jousseaume
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