Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Conoidea Genus Terebra Phylum Mollusca | Class Gastropoda Family Terebridae Scientific name Terebra amanda Rank Species | |
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Similar Terebra, Terebra cingulifera, Terebra pertusa, Hastula strigilata, Terebra guttata | ||
Terebra amanda, common name Amanda's auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.
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Description
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.
Distribution
This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific and off New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomons.
References
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