Agariste phrygium is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.[2]
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| Shell of Agariste phrygium (specimen at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Lepetellida |
| Family: | Fissurellidae |
| Subfamily: | Emarginulinae |
| Genus: | Agariste |
| Species: | A. phrygium
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| Binomial name | |
| Agariste phrygium (Herbert & Kilburn, 1986)[1]
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| Synonyms | |
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Emarginula phrygium Herbert & Kilburn, 1986 (original combination) | |
Description
editThe height of the shell attains 8.3 mm, its base measures 9.0 mm x 6.1 mm. [3]
Distribution
editThis 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
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
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- 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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