Terebra amanda

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]

Terebra amanda
Apertural view of a shell of Terebra amanda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Conoidea
Family:
Terebridae
Genus:
Terebra
Species:
T. amanda
Binomial name
Terebra amanda
Hinds, 1844
Synonyms[1]
  • 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

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.

References
  1. Terebra amanda Hinds, 1844. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 October 2012.
  2. 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)
  • 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.
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