Terebra amanda
| Terebra amanda | |
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| Apertural view of a shell of Terebra amanda | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Terebra |
| Species: | T. amanda
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| Binomial name | |
| Terebra amanda Hinds, 1844
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Terebra amanda, common name Amanda's auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
Description[edit]
The length of the shell varies between 25 mm and 95 mm.
(Original description) The shell is rather bluntly, elongately subulate. It is pale brownish orange throughout. It contains 17 whorls, sculptured with a coarse infrasutural spiral crenate rib and five smaller spiral crenate ribs The interstices are finely punctate. The aperture is small. The columella recurved and twisted. The siphonal canal is short.[2]
Distribution[edit]
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific and off New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomons.
References[edit]
- ^ a b Terebra amanda Hinds, 1844. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 October 2012.
- ^ Preston, H. B. "Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands." Records of the Indian Museum 2.2 (1908): 187–210 (described as Terebra unicolor)
- Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp
- Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp.
- Terryn Y. (2007). Terebridae: A Collectors Guide. Conchbooks & NaturalArt. 59pp + plates.
- Severns M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp.
External links[edit]
Media related to Terebra amanda at Wikimedia Commons