Terebra amanda

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Terebra amanda
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Apertural view of a shell of Terebra amanda
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T. amanda
Binomial name
Terebra amanda
Hinds, 1844
Synonyms [1]
  • Dimidacus stramineus(Gray, 1967)
  • Perirhoe melamansIredale, T., 1929
  • Terebra albomarginataDeshayes, 1859
  • Terebra (Amanda-group) albomarginataDeshayes, G.P., 1859
  • Terebra stramineaGray, 1960
  • Terebra unicolorPreston, 1908

Terebra amanda, common name Amanda's auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. [1]

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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. [2]

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indo-Pacific and off New Guinea, the Philippines and the Solomons.

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