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Neoterebra armillata (Hinds, 1844)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

(T.armillata) Shell medium in size; color usually light brown with cream colored nodes on subsutural band but sometime is light tan or yellowish

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Terebridae

Genus
Neoterebra

Species
armillata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Myurella albocincta (Carpenter, 1857), Terebra (Myurella) albocincta (Carpenter, 1857), Terebra albicostata A. Adams & Reeve, 1850, Terebra armillata Hinds, 1844, Terebra marginata Deshayes, 1857 (Horton et al., 2021).; (T.armillata) AMNH: 111851, LACM: HH-667, BMNH: 1979124 (Lectotype, Cuming coll., from “Galapagos”, but “Mazatlan, Mexico” was designated as type locality by Bratcher & Cernohorsky, 1987

Origin: Native

References

  • Bratcher, T. Cernohorsky, W.O. (1987) Living Terebras of the World. A Monograph of the Recent Terebridae of the World. American Malacologists Inc., Melbourne, Florida, 240 pp.
  • 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 armillata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20061. Accessed 31 October 2026.