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Terebridae

13 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Gastropoda › Neogastropoda › Terebridae

Terebra guttata (Röding, 1798)

Terebra guttata, the eyed auger, is a marine auger snail found in parts of the Indian Ocean.

Terebra subulata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Terebra subulata is a marine auger snail species with distinctively patterned shells found across the Indo-Pacific.

Hastula cinerea (Born, 1778)

Hastula cinerea is a species of shallow-water sea snail found across multiple warm Atlantic and Indian Ocean regions.

Hastula salleana (Deshayes, 1859)

Hastula salleana is a species with a shell between 13 and 40 mm long, found off North America, the Caribbean, and Brazil.

Hastula hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Hastula hectica is a species with shells 30–80 mm long found in the Red Sea and Indo-West Pacific.

Oxymeris maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oxymeris maculata, the marlinspike, is the largest terebrid snail, found in the tropical Indo-Pacific and Pacific, and has uses for humans.

Oxymeris crenulata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oxymeris crenulata is a varied marine gastropod with distinct shell features, found across parts of the Red Sea, Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Neoterebra pedroana (Dall, 1908)

Neoterebra pedroana is a marine species with adult shells 40–61 mm, found from California to southern Baja California.

Neoterebra dislocata (Say, 1822)

Neoterebra dislocata is a carnivorous auger sea snail found from Virginia to Brazil. It lacks a radula and poison gland.

Punctoterebra ballina (Hedley, 1915)

Punctoterebra ballina is a marine species found along eastern Australia with adult shells 15–34 mm long.

Profunditerebra brazieri (Angas, 1871)

Profunditerebra brazieri is a marine snail with shells 20–40 mm long, found off southern Australia and Tasmania.

Duplicaria bernardii (Deshayes, 1857)

Duplicaria bernardii is an auger sea snail species found in Trial Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Duplicaria tristis (Deshayes, 1859)

Duplicaria tristis is a species of marine auger sea snail, a gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae.

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