Oxymeris maculata

Oxymeris maculata
live Oxymeris maculata
shells of Oxymeris maculata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Oxymeris
Species:	O. maculata
Binomial name
Oxymeris maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Acus maculata (Linnaeus, 1758) Acus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Buccinum luteolum Chenu, 1845 Buccinum maculatum Linnaeus, 1758 Buccinum varicosum Gmelin, 1791 Subula maculata (Linnaeus, 1758) Terebra maculata (Linnaeus, 1758) Terebra maculata confluens Dautzenberg, 1935 Terebra maculata roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1970 Terebra maculosa Pfeiffer, 1840 Terebra roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1939 Vertagus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Oxymeris maculata, common name the marlinspike auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico; also off Papua New Guinea.

References

• 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.
• Severns, M. (2011). Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp

External links

• Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata [10th revised edition, vol. 1: 824 pp. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae]
• Fedosov, A. E.; Malcolm, G.; Terryn, Y.; Gorson, J.; Modica, M. V.; Holford, M.; Puillandre, N. (2020). Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 85(4): 359-388

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