Oxymeris maculata

Oxymeris maculata
	live Oxymeris maculata
	shells of Oxymeris maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Oxymeris
Species:	O. maculata
Binomial name
	Oxymeris maculata; (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
	Acus maculata (Linnaeus, 1758); Acus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758); Buccinum luteolum Chenu, 1845; Buccinum maculatum Linnaeus, 1758; Buccinum varicosum Gmelin, 1791; Subula maculata (Linnaeus, 1758); Terebra maculata (Linnaeus, 1758); Terebra maculata confluens Dautzenberg, 1935; Terebra maculata roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1970; Terebra maculosa Pfeiffer, 1840; Terebra roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1939; Vertagus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758);

Oxymeris maculata, common name the marlinspike auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.^[1]

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.

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