Agagus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Trochidae, the top snails.
Species Species within the genus Agagus include: Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894 Agagus stellamaris Herbert, 1991 Martin Zuschin, Ronald Janssen and Christian Baal (2009) also mention an Agagus n.sp found in the Red Sea, that differs from A. agagus by its smooth base and from A. stellamaris (found in the Indian Ocean) by its higher conical shape.Zuschin, Janssen, Baal - Gastropods and their habitats from the northern red Sea, Part I Patellogastropoda, Vetigastropoda, Cycloneritimorpha.pdf Ann. Naturhist. Mus. Wien 111 A 73-158, Wien April 2009
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Jousseaume [F.P.] 1894. Diagnoses des coquilles de nouveaux mollusques. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris, 8(6): 98-105 Herbert D.G. (1991) A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900 D.G. Herbert (1990), A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae); Journal of Natural History Volume 25, Issue 4, 1991