| Oxymeris felina | |
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| shell of Oxymeris felina | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Terebridae |
| Genus: | Oxymeris |
| Species: | O. felina |
| Binomial name | |
| Oxymeris felina (Dillwyn, 1817) |
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Oxymeris felina, common name : the Tiger 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 39 mm and 90 mm.
This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean along Hawaiian Islands