This species, described from Honduras (Tropical Atlantic realm. Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province) most closely rese,bles the Panamic Agaronia propatula (Conrad, 1849).
Tropical Atlantic realm. Tropical Northwestern Atlantic province. Honduras.
"Shell average size for genus, inflated, bulliform, with small, acuminate spire; aperture very wide and flaring; body whorl smooth, with silky texture; spire whorls almost completely covered by thick enamel deposit; anterior one-fourth of shell with thick, shiny, enamel deposit, sharply separated from silky-textured body whorl; columella thin, with several narrow, twisted plications; shell color olive-gray with speckles and small zig-zag of darker gray; spire enamel dark brownish-black; columella at posterior of aperture marked with large, blackish-brown patch; anterior enamel deposit dark brown on dorsum, fading to tan near columella; interior of aperture white, bordered with brown along inner edge of lip; columella pale tan and white; early whorls white."
Paratype in Leonard Hill collection. Off Roatan Island, Honduras, 20 m.
Petuch (1987) considered this species to be the descendant of Agaronia costaricensis (Olsson, 1922), described from the Miocene of Costa Rica.
