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(Redirected from Impages hectica) Species of gastropod

Hastula hectica
Apertural view of a shell of Hastula hectica
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Hastula
Species: H. hectica
Binomial name
Hastula hectica
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
  • Buccinum bifasciatum Dillwyn, 1817
  • Buccinum edentulum Gmelin, 1791
  • Buccinum hecticum Linnaeus, 1758
  • Buccinum niveum Gmelin, 1791
  • Buccinum terebrale Menke, 1828
  • Bullia fuscus Gray in Dieffenbach, 1834
  • Hastula hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Impages hectica (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Terebra caerulescens Lamarck, 1822
  • Terebra caerulescens var. otaitensis Lesson, 1830
  • Terebra castanea Kiener, 1839
  • Terebra flammulata Martens, 1880
  • Terebra hectica Dautzenberg, 1935
  • Terebra hectica var. alba Dautzenberg, 1935
  • Terebra hectica var. fusca Dautzenberg, 1935
  • Terebra hectica var. nimbosa Dautzenberg, 1935
  • Terebra nimbosa Hinds, 1844

Hastula hectica, common name the sandbeach auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Description

The length of the shell varies between 30 mm and 80 mm.

This section needs expansion. You can help by adding to it. (October 2012)

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Indo-West Pacific.

References

  1. ^ Bouchet, P.; Terryn, Y. (2012). Hastula hectica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217087 on 2012-10-14
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321–636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • 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
  • Castelin M., Puillandre N., Kantor Yu. I., Modica M.V., Terryn Y., Cruaud C., Bouchet P. & Holford M. (2012) Macroevolution of venom apparatus innovations in auger snails (Gastropoda; Conoidea; Terebridae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 64: 21–44

External links

Media related to Hastula hectica at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Hastula hectica


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