Terebra

Terebra
A shell of Terebra dislocata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Terebra
Bruguière, 1789
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • Dimidacus Iredale, 1929
  • Myurellina Bartsch, 1923
  • Noditerebra Cossmann, 1896
  • Nototerebra Cotton, 1947
  • Panaterebra Olsson, 1967
  • Paraterebra Woodring, 1928
  • Subula Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebrina Bartsch, 1923 (Invalid: junior homonym of Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815; Dimidacus is a replacement name)
  • Terebrum Montfort, 1810
  • Vertagus Link, 1807

Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. [1]

Species in this genus do not possess a radula.

Species

Species in the genus Terebra include: [1] [2][3]

Synonyms
Terebra inversa, a fossil gastropod from Pliocene deposits near Antwerp.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Terebra Bruguière, 1789 .  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 September 2010.
  2. "Terebra". Integrated Taxonomic Information System.
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. Terryn, Y. (2010). Perirhoe circumcincta (Deshayes, 1857). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=438755 on 2010-05-19
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