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Scientific Name: Agaronia gibbosa (Born, 1778)
English Name: Swollen olive. Gibbous/fat olive
Local/Bangla Name: Bukchira (বুকচিরা), Kola shamuk (কলা শামুক)
Swollen olive. Gibbous/fat olive - Bukchira (বুকচিরা), Kola shamuk (কলা শামুক) - Agaronia gibbosa - Type: Sea_snails

Labcode: M1706SM-20, M1706SM-21, M1706SM-22, M1706SM- 28

Photo: ABR Lab

Classification:
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mullusca
Class: Gastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Olividae
Description:
Shell moderately large, thick, heavy and elongate ovate. Spire short and acuminate. 3 whorls with a large, narrow and inflated body whorl. Aperture elongated, rather wide, anterior canal deep and wide. Outer lip smooth with no teeth but inner lip has teeth of 2/3 portion of aperture. Columella is with folds. Color: Spire is white lower edges of the suture with brown spot. Exterior sculptured with mottled brown wavy color with pinkish brown stripes and a few light brown to light green spot; anterior end with yellowish or whitish spiral line with deep brown or pinkish large spiral lines. Aperture, lips, columella and siphonal canal yellowish or bluish white. Size: Average shell length, average shell width, average aperture length, average aperture width is respectively 80mm, 35mm, 72mm, 15mm.
Habitat & Distribution in Bangladesh:
St. Martin’s and Sonadia Islands
Environment:
Marine
Main References:

Sultana KS, Brishti PS, Ahmed S, Billah MB, Habib KA (2021) Morphological and molecular characterization of several neogastropod species (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from coastal waters of Bangladesh with one new record. Journal of Bio-Science, 79-91.

Other References:

Siddiqui KU, Islam MA, Kabir SMH, Ahmad M, Ahmed ATA, Rahman AKA, Haque EU, Ahmed ZU, Begum ZNT, Hassan MA, Khondker M, Rahman MM (2007) Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh, Vol. 17. Molluscs. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, Dhaka 415 pp.

Hossain MS, Sharifuzzaman SM, Chowdhury SR, Chowdhury MSN, Sarkar S, Islam MR, Talukder A (2014) Sea Shells of Bangladesh: Marine Gastropod and Bivalve Molluscs Biodiversity.1-44pp

Antu DR, Islam TT, Ahmed MR, Ahmed S, Datta SK, Ahmed MS (2023) Diversity of Bivalves and Gastropods in Sonadia Island, Bangladesh. Bioresearch Communications-(BRC), 9(01), 1225-1236. https://doi.org/10.3329/brc.v9i1.63603

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