Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Neoterebra glauca (Hinds, 1844)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Terebridae

Genus
Neoterebra

Species
glauca

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Pristiterebra glauca (Hinds, 1844), Terebra dorothyae Bratcher & R. D. Burch, 1970, Terebra glauca Hinds, 1844 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • Bratcher, T. Burch, R.D. (1970) Five New Species of Terebra from the Eastern Pacific. The Veliger 12: 295-300.
  • 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 glauca", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20062. Accessed 8 June 2026.