Galapagos Species Database
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Neoterebra frigata
Taladro estriado, Striated auger
(T. frigata) Length: 30 mm, shell small, slender; color shiny white; nucleus of three inflated, shining, opaque whorls with a constriction between nucleus and first postnuclear whorl; whorls slightly concave.
(T. frigata) Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Terebridae
Genus
Neoterebra
Species
frigata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Terebra frigata Hinds, 1844 (Horton et al., 2021); (T. frigata) type locality: Galapagos (Hinds 1844), AMNH: 12523, 180807, ANSP: 154783, 331755, 331756, LACM: several specimens (ex.: A. 5498, AHF 57-33, AHF 177-34), CAS: 13229, plus several other specimens; ? 2897 (Holotype of Terebra galapagina Dall & Ochsner), ? 2898 to 2903 (Paratypes of Terebra galapagina Dall & Ochsner), BMNH: 1968420 (Lectotype + 2 Paralectotypes), CDRS: 522, 524, 593, 1100, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (T. frigata) Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Bratcher, T. Burch, R.D. (1971) The Terebridae (Gastropoda) of Clarion, Socorro, Cocos, and Galapagos Islands. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci., 37(21): 537-566.
- Finet, Y. (1991) The Marine Mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. In: Galápagos Marine Invertebrate. Taxonomy, Biogeography, and Evolution in Darwin's Islands. Plenum Press. New York and London, p. 253-280.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neoterebra frigata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19962. Accessed 30 October 2026.