Agatha (gastropod)

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]

Agatha
Shell of Agatha obesa (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Heterobranchia
Subcohort: Panpulmonata
Superfamily: Pyramidelloidea
Family: Pyramidellidae
Genus: Agatha
A. Adams, 1860[1]
Type species
Agatha virgo
A. Adams, 1860
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Amathis A. Adams, 1861 (objective synonym)
  • Pyramidella (Agatha) A. Adams, 1860

They have bilateral symmetry and only have endoderm and ectoderm tissues.

The species of this genus are ectoparasites on other invertebrates.

Distribution
  • Marine

Species
  • † 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)
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References
  1. Adams A. (1860). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)6: 422.
  2. 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
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