Duplicaria raphanula

Duplicaria raphanula
Apertural view of a shell of Duplicaria raphanula
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Duplicaria
Species: D. raphanula
Binomial name
Duplicaria raphanula
(Lamarck, 1822)
Synonyms[1]
  • Duplicaria deynzerorum Sprague, 2004
  • Subula raphanula (Lamarck, 1822)

Duplicaria raphanula, common name (little) radish auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 80 mm.

Distribution

This marine shell occurs off South Africa, Chagos, the Mascarene Basin, the Philippines, New Guinea and the Fiji Islands.

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