Description: Terebra strigata Sowerby, 1825 - zebra auger snail (apertural view) (public display, Bailey-Matthews Shell Museum, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA) This species is also known as Oxymeris strigata. The gastropods (snails & slugs) are a group of molluscs that occupy marine, freshwater, and terrestrial environments. Most gastropods have a calcareous external shell (the snails). Some lack a shell completely, or have reduced internal shells (the slugs & sea slugs & pteropods). Most members of the Gastropoda are marine. Most marine snails are herbivores (algae grazers) or predators/carnivores. The zebra auger snail shown above is part of the Panamic Province: "Much richer in species than its Caribbean counterpart, the tropical-water Panamic area extends from the Gulf of California, along the Pacific coast of Central America to Ecuador. Known for its wide tidal ranges, its sandy-mud shores and offshore waters abound in colorful murexes, cones, olives and cowries. Over 2,500 species are known from here, including the endemic tent olive." [info. from museum signage] Classification: Animalia, Mollusca, Gastropoda, Neogastropoda, Terebridae Locality: unrecorded/undisclosed/unspecified More info. at:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymeris_strigata. Date: 3 January 2016, 17:22. Source:
Terebra strigata (zebra auger snail). Author:
James St. John.
