Galapagos Species Database
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Neoterebra jacquelinae
Taladro de Jaqueline, Jacqueline auger
(T. jacquelinae) Length: 36 mm, shell of medium size; usually shiny cream color throughout; one and one-half shiny opaque nuclear whorls.
(T. jacquelinae) 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
jacquelinae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Terebra hertleini Bratcher & R. D. Burch, 1970, Terebra jacquelinae Bratcher & R. D. Burch, 1970 (Horton et al., 2021); (T. jacquelinae) AMNH: 157281 (Paratype of T. hertleini), 157282 (Paratype of T. jacquelinae), ANSP: 316670 (Paratype of T. hertleini), 316671 (Paratype of T. jacquelinae), 154782, USNM: 680212 (Paratype of T. hertleini), 680213 (Paratype of T. jacquelinae), 707164, 812792, LACM: 1179 (Paratypes of T. jacquelinae), 1288 (Paratype of T. hertleini), 71-65, A.5498, HH-685, AHF 173-34, AHF 321-35, AHF 790-38, plus several other specimens, CAS: 13215 (ex 32502) (Holotype of T. jacquelinae, type locality: Galapagos), 13222 (ex 32503) (Holotype of T. hertleini, type locality: Galapagos), 32504 (Paratypes of T. hertleini), plus several other specimens, CDRS: 523, 701, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: (T. jacquelinae) 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.
- 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.
- Keen, A.M. (1958) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, 1st edition, 624 pp.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neoterebra jacquelinae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19963. Accessed 30 October 2026.