Terebra

Genus of gastropods


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::summary Genus of gastropods ::

| image = Terebra_diversity.png | image_caption = Terebra spp. | taxon = Terebra | authority = Bruguière, 1789 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms =

  • Cinguloterebra Oyama, 1961
  • Dimidacus Iredale, 1929
  • Myurellina Bartsch, 1923
  • Noditerebra Cossmann, 1896
  • Nototerebra Cotton, 1947
  • Panaterebra Olsson, 1967
  • Perirhoe (Dimidacus) Iredale, 1929
  • Paraterebra Woodring, 1928
  • Subula Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Dimidacus) Iredale, 1929
  • Terebra (Subula) Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Triplostephanus) Dall, 1908
  • Terebrina Bartsch, 1923 (Invalid: junior homonym of Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815; Dimidacus is a replacement name)
  • Terebrum Montfort, 1810
  • Triplostephanus Dall, 1908
  • Vertagus Link, 1807 | type_species = Buccinum subulatum | type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1767 | display_parents = 3

Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Species in this genus do not possess a radula.

Species

Species in the genus Terebra include:

;Nomen dubium:

  • Terebra bicincta Hinds, 1844
  • Terebra dispar Deshayes, 1859
  • Terebra tuberosa Hinds, 1844
  • Terebra violascens Hinds, 1844 ;Uncertain status:
  • Terebra walkeri Smith, 1899 (is a species of Cerithiidae)

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b3/Terebra_maculata_Linné,1758(4323124908).jpg" caption="''[[Terebra maculata]]'' shell"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cc/Terebra_inversa.jpg" caption="''[[Terebra inversa]]'', a [[fossil]] gastropod from [[Pliocene]] deposits near [[Antwerp]]."] ::

Synonyms

This list is incomplete

References

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 160427. ''Terebra'' Bruguière, 1789. 14 September 2010
  2. {{ITIS
  3. [[Arthur William Baden Powell. Powell A. W. B.]], ''New Zealand Mollusca'', [[HarperCollins. William Collins Publishers Ltd]], Auckland, New Zealand 1979 {{ISBN. 0-00-216906-1
  4. Terryn, Y. (2010). ''Perirhoe circumcincta'' ([[Gérard Paul Deshayes

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