''Agathotoma'' is a

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Mangeliidae Mangeliidae is a monophyletic family of small to medium-sized, predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Conoidea. Bouchet, P. (2011). Mangeliidae P. Fischer, 1883. In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Regis ...

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Description

Typical character of this genus: the spiral

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consists of fine, incised striae.

Species

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within the genus ''Agathotoma'' include: * '' Agathotoma aculea'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Agathotoma alcippe'' (Dall, 1918) * † '' Agathotoma angusta'' (Bellardi, 1847) * '' Agathotoma apocrypha'' (Garcia, 2008) * '' Agathotoma asthenika'' Rolán, Fernández-Garcés & Redfern, 2012 * '' Agathotoma camarina'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Agathotoma candidissima'' (C.B. Adams, 1845) * '' Agathotoma castellata'' (E.A. Smith, 1888) * '' Agathotoma coxi'' (Fargo, 1953) * '' Agathotoma ecthymata'' García, 2008 * '' Agathotoma eduardoi'' Rolán, Fernández-Garcés & Redfern, 2012 * † '' Agathotoma estherae'' Landau, Harzhauser & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 2023 * '' Agathotoma finalis'' Rolan & Fernandes, 1992 * '' Agathotoma finitima'' (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) * '' Agathotoma guadalupensis'' Espinosa & Ortea, 2017 * '' Agathotoma hilaira'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Agathotoma kirshi'' Rolán, Fernández-Garcés & Redfern, 2012 * '' Agathotoma klasmidia'' Shasky, 1971 * '' Agathotoma merlini'' (Dautzenberg, 1910) * '' Agathotoma neglecta'' (Adams C. B., 1852) * '' Agathotoma ordinaria'' (Smith, E.A., 1882) * † '' Agathotoma pherousae'' (Glibert, 1960) * '' Agathotoma phryne'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Agathotoma prominens'' Rolán, Fernández-Garcés & Redfern, 2012 * † '' Agathotoma pseudolabratula'' Lozouet, 2015 * '' Agathotoma quadriseriata'' (Dall, 1919) * '' Agathotoma secalis'' Shasky, 1971 * '' Agathotoma stellata'' (Mörch, 1860) * † '' Agathotoma subfoliata'' (O. Boettger, 1902) * '' Agathotoma subtilis'' (Watson, 1881) * '' Agathotoma temporaria'' Rolan & Otero-Schmitt, 1999 * † '' Agathotoma vanualevensis'' Ladd, 1982 ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Agathotoma badia'' (Reeve, 1846): synonym of ''Agathotoma candidissima'' (C. B. Adams, 1845) * ''Agathotoma densestriata'' (C.B. Adams, 1850): synonym of ''Agathotoma candidissima'' (C. B. Adams, 1845) * ''Agathotoma densilineata'' Dall W.H., 1921: synonym of '' Mangelia densilineata'' (Dall W.H., 1921) * ''Agathotoma euryclea'' Dall, W.H., 1919: synonym of ''Agathotoma alcippe'' (Dall, 1918) * ''Agathotoma metria'' (Dall, 1903): synonym of '' Vitricythara metria'' (Dall, 1903) * ''Agathotoma pomara'' W.H. Dall, 1919: synonym of '' Mangelia pomara'' (W.H. Dall, 1919) * ''Agathotoma pyrrhula'' Dall, W.H., 1919: synonym of ''Agathotoma alcippe'' (Dall, 1918) * ''Agathotoma trilineata'' (C. B. Adams, 1845): synonym of ''

Tenaturris trilineata ''Tenaturris trilineata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Mangeliidae. Description The length of the shell attains 6.5 mm. The shell is narrowly shouldered and contains 6½ whorls. It shows small, close ...

'' (C. B. Adams, 1845)

References

* Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biología Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284.

External links

Bellardi, L. (1877). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte II (Pleurotomidae). Stamperia Reale, Torino, 364 pp., 9 pl

Smith, E.A. (1888) Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 2, 300–317

Cossmann, Maurice. ''Essais de paléoconchologie comparée.'' Chez l'auteur, 1899

Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). ''A new operational classification of the Conoidea''. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77, 273-308
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