Oxymeris Dall 1903

Oxymeris is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Oxymeris include:^[1]

• Oxymeris albida (Gray, 1834)
• Oxymeris areolata (Link, 1807)
• Oxymeris barbieri (Aubry, 2008)
• Oxymeris caledonica (Sowerby III, 1909)
• Oxymeris cerithina (Lamarck, 1822)
• Oxymeris chlorata (Lamarck, 1822)
• Oxymeris consors (Hinds, 1844)
• Oxymeris crenulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Oxymeris dillwynii (Deshayes, 1859)
• Oxymeris dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Oxymeris fatua (Hinds, 1844)
• Oxymeris felina (Dillwyn, 1817)
• Oxymeris gouldi (Deshayes, 1857)
• Oxymeris lineopunctata (Bozzetti, 2008)
• Oxymeris maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Oxymeris ngai Thach, 2016
• † Oxymeris plicaria (Basterot, 1825)
• Oxymeris senegalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
• Oxymeris strigata (Sowerby I, 1825)
• Oxymeris suffusa (Pease, 1889)
• Oxymeris swinneni Terryn & Ryall, 2014
• Oxymeris trochlea (Deshayes, 1857)

Species brought into synonymy

• Oxymeris costellifera (Pease, 1869): synonym of Duplicaria costellifera (Pease, 1869)
• Oxymeris troendlei (Bratcher, 1981): synonym of Oxymeris felina (Dillwyn, 1817)

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
• Severns M. (2011) Shells of the Hawaiian Islands - The Sea Shells. Conchbooks, Hackenheim. 564 pp