Punctoterebra plumbea

Punctoterebra plumbea
Apertural view of a shell of Punctoterebra plumbea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Punctoterebra
Species:	P. plumbea
Binomial name
Punctoterebra plumbea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonyms
Hastula plumbea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1964) Strioterebrum plumbeum (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Terebra assimilis Pease, 1871 Terebra bourguignati Deshayes, 1859 Terebra castaneofusca Thiele, 1925 Terebra clappi Pilsbry, 1921 Terebra contigua Pease, 1871 Terebra hoffmeyeri Abbott, 1952 Terebra plumbea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Punctoterebra plumbea, common name : the lead-coloured auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 13 mm and 25 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. (May 2011)

Distribution

This species occurs in the tropical Indo-West Pacific and off the Philippines, Hawaii, Papua New Guinea and the Solomons.

References

• Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp
• Terryn Y. (2007). Terebridae: A Collectors Guide. Conchbooks & NaturalArt. 59pp + plates

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Strioterebrum plumbeum.

• Quoy J.R.C. & Gaimard J.P. (1832-1835). Voyage de découvertes de l'"Astrolabe" exécuté par ordre du Roi, pendant les années 1826-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie. 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833]. Paris: Tastu
• Pease W. H. (1869). Description of new species of marine Gasteropodæ inhabiting Polynesia. American Journal of Conchology. 5: 64-79
• "Strioterebrum plumbeum". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
• Fedosov, A. E.; Malcolm, G.; Terryn, Y.; Gorson, J.; Modica, M. V.; Holford, M.; Puillandre, N. (2020). Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea). Journal of Molluscan Studies

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