Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Neoterebra shyana
Taladro, Auger
(T.purdyae) Shell small and slender; shiny pale cream color with incon-spicuous fulvous blotches.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Terebridae
Genus
Neoterebra
Species
shyana
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Terebra purdyae Bratcher & R. D. Burch, 1970, Terebra shyana Bratcher & R. D. Burch, 1970 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
- 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.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Neoterebra shyana", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=19994. Accessed 10 June 2026.