Oxymeris senegalensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Conoidea |
Family: | Terebridae |
Genus: | Oxymeris |
Species: | O. senegalensis |
Binomial name | |
Oxymeris senegalensis (Lamarck, 1822) |
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Oxymeris senegalensis, common name : the Faval Auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
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The size of an adult shell varies between 35 mm and 165 mm.
This species is distributed in the Atlantic Ocean from South Morocco to Angola. .