Duplicaria dussumierii

Duplicaria dussumieri
Apertural view of a shell of Duplicaria dussumierii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Duplicaria
Species: D. dussumieri
Binomial name
Duplicaria dussumieri
(Kiener, 1839)
Synonyms
  • Duplicaria dussumieri [sic] (misspelling)
  • Terebra dussumieri [sic] (misspelling)
  • Terebra dussumierii Kiener, 1839

Duplicaria dussumieri, common name Dussumier's auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 40 mm and 112 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off Indonesia, China, Japan and Korea

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