Galapagos Species Database

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Neoterebra elata (Hinds, 1844)

Gasterópodo, Gastropod

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Neogastropoda

Superfamily
Conoidea

Family
Terebridae

Genus
Neoterebra

Species
elata

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Terebra elata Hinds, 1844, Terebra montijoensis Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

References

  • Bratcher, T. (1979) Taxonomic Changes in Eastern Pacific Terebridae with the Dscription of a New Species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The Veliger 22: 61-64.
  • Finet, Y. (1994) The Marine Mollusks of the Galápagos Islands: a documented faunal list Muséum d'Histoire naturelle, Genève, 180 pp.
  • Finet, Y. (1985) Preliminary faunal list of the marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands. Inst. R. Sci. Nat. Belg., Section des Invertébrés récents, Studiedocumenten 20: 1-50.
  • 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. (1971) Sea Shells of Tropical West America. Marine Mollusks from Baja California to Peru- Second Edition. Stanford University Press, Stanford California. 2nd edition, 1064 pp.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Neoterebra elata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=20113. Accessed 1 November 2026.