''Terebra reticularis'' is a species of

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusc Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is esti ...

in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.MolluscaBase (2019). MolluscaBase. Terebra reticularis (Pecchioli in Sacco, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225108 on 2020-01-23

Description

The length of the shell attains 20.2 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off

Mauritania Mauritania (; ar, موريتانيا, ', french: Mauritanie; Berber: ''Agawej'' or ''Cengit''; Pulaar: ''Moritani''; Wolof: ''Gànnaar''; Soninke:), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania ( ar, الجمهورية الإسلامية ...

and the

Congo Congo or The Congo may refer to either of two countries that border the Congo River in central Africa: * Democratic Republic of the Congo, the larger country to the southeast, capital Kinshasa, formerly known as Zaire, sometimes referred to a ...

References

* Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda * Terryn Y. & Ryall P. (2014) West African Terebridae, with the description of a new species from the Cape Verde Islands. Conchylia 44(3–4): 27–47 * 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

External links

Sacco F. (1891). I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte X. (Cassididae (aggiunte), Terebridae e Pusionellidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 68 pp., 2 pls

Talavera, F. G. (1975). Moluscos de sedimentos de la plataforma continental de Mauritania. Boletín del Instituto Español de Oceanografía. 192: 1-14, 4 pls

Sacco F. (1891). I Molluschi dei Terreni Terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte X. (Cassididae (aggiunte), Terebridae e Pusionellidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 68 pp., 2 pls

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. 85(4): 359-388
Terebridae Gastropods described in 1891 {{terebridae-stub