Terebra amanda

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Species of gastropod

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::summary Species of gastropod ::

| image = Terebra amanda 001.jpg | image_upright = 0.8 | image_caption = Apertural view of a shell of Terebra amanda | genus = Terebra | species = amanda | authority = Hinds, 1844 | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = *Dimidacus stramineus (Gray, 1967)

  • Perirhoe melamans Iredale, T., 1929
  • Terebra albomarginata Deshayes, 1859
  • Terebra (Amanda-group) albomarginata Deshayes, G.P., 1859
  • Terebra straminea Gray, 1960
  • Terebra unicolor Preston, 1908

Terebra amanda, common name Amanda's auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

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

  • 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.

References

  1. {{WRMS species. 208109. ''Terebra amanda'' Hinds, 1844. 15 October 2012
  2. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109280#page/265/mode/1up 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'')

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