''Agagus'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

of sea snails,

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gastropod molluscs in the

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Trochidae The Trochidae, common name top-snails or top-shells, are a family of various sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subclass Vetigastropoda. This family is commonly known as the top-snails because in many species the shell resembles ...

, the top snails.

Species

Species within the genus ''Agagus'' include: * ''

Agagus agagus ''Agagus agagus'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family (biology), family Trochidae, the top snails. Description The shell grows to a length of 9 mm, its diameter 10 mm. The umbilicate shell has a depresse ...

'' Jousseaume, 1894 * '' Agagus stellamaris'' Herbert, 1991 Martin Zuschin, Ronald Janssen and Christian Baal (2009) also mention an ''Agagus n.sp'' found in the

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; ...

, that differs from ''A. agagus'' by its smooth base and from ''A. stellamaris'' (found in the

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by ...

) by its higher conical shape.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
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References

External links

Jousseaume [F.P.] 1894. Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 8(6): 98-105

Herbert D.G. (1991) ''A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae).'' Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900

D.G. Herbert (1990), ''A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae)''; Journal of Natural History Volume 25, Issue 4, 1991
Gastropod genera Taxa named by Félix Pierre Jousseaume Trochidae {{Trochidae-stub