Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Terebra ornata
taladro ornado, Ornate auger
Length: 82 mm, shell large, moderately heavy, broad apical angle
Shallow water (less than 200 m depth), intertidal and subtidal.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Class
Gastropoda
Order
Neogastropoda
Superfamily
Conoidea
Family
Terebridae
Genus
Terebra
Species
ornata
Taxon category: Accepted
AMNH: 12664, 111889, 117939, 164546, ANSP: 33513, 104740, USNM: 678928, 753308, 780587, 812845, LACM: 66-210, 72-190, A.2777, AHF 324-35, CAS: several specimens (ex.: 13232), CDRS: 1087, 1088, FNRS-Belgian expedition to the Galapagos, 1984, MHNG expedition to the Galapagos, 1993
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Gulf of California to Panama and Ecuador (Galapagos Islands)
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- 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.
- Finet, Y. (2001) The marine mollusks of the Galapagos Islands: a documented faunal list. Editions du Muséum d' Histoire naturelle, Genève, 237 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Finet, Y. (1999) A Field Guide to the Marine Molluscs of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 150 pp.
- 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, Terebra ornata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8065. Accessed 7 June 2026.