| Oxymeris dimidiata | |
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| shell of Oxymeris dimidiata | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Oxymeris |
| Species: | O. dimidiata |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxymeris dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Oxymeris dimidiata, common name : the Orange Auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
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The shell size varies between 55 mm and 165 mm.
This species is distributed in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascerene Basin, Mauritius, Mozambique , KwaZulu (South Africa) and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaii.