Agatha (gastropod)
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| Shell of Agatha obesa (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Family: | Pyramidellidae |
| Subfamily: | Syrnolinae |
| Tribe: | Syrnolini |
| Genus: | Agatha A. Adams, 1860[1] |
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| Agatha virgo A. Adams, 1860
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Agatha is a small genus of minute sea snails or marine gastropod mollusks within the subfamily Syrnolinae, which is a part of the family Pyramidellidae.[2]
They have bilateral symmetry and only have endoderm and ectoderm tissues.[citation needed]
The species of this genus are ectoparasites on other invertebrates.
Distribution
[edit]- Marine
Species
[edit]- † Agatha alexanderi (Marwick, 1929)
- Agatha amabilis Nomura, 1936
- Agatha australis (Angas, 1871)
- Agatha brevis Yokoyama, 1922
- Agatha filia (Melvill, 1893)
- Agatha georgiana (Hutton, 1885)
- Agatha laevis (Angas, 1867)
- Agatha obesa Peñas & Rolán, 2016
- † Agatha otaioensis Laws, 1940
- Agatha pacei (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1906)
- † Agatha pittensis (Marwick, 1928)
- Agatha placida Nomura, 1936
- Agatha vestalis Melvill, 1910
- Agatha virgo Weisbord, 1962
- Species brought into synonymy
- Agatha angasi (Tryon, 1886): synonym of Syrnola angasi (Tryon, 1886)
- Agatha infrequens Nomura, 1937: synonym of Odostomia infrequens (Nomura, 1937)
- Agatha lepidula Habe, 1961: synonym of Tibersyrnola lepidula (Habe, 1961)
- Agatha simplex (Angas, 1871): synonym of Megastomia simplex (Angas, 1871)
References
[edit]- ^ Adams A. (1860). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)6: 422.
- ^ Rosenberg, G. (2012). Agatha A. Adams, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=599126 on 2012-08-27