Impages cinerea

Impages cinerea
	Several views of a shell of Impages cinerea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Impages
Species:	I. cinerea
Binomial name
	Impages cinerea; (Born, 1778)
Synonyms
	Buccinum cinereum Born, 1780; Hastula cinerea Born, 1778; Hastula luctuosa (Hinds, 1958); Impages acuminata Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de, 1822; Terebra acuminata Gray in Reeve, 1860; Terebra exacuminata Sacco, 1891; Terebra flammulata Martens, E.C. von, 1880; Terebra hectica alba (f) Dautzenberg, Ph., 1935; Terebra hectica fusca (f) Dautzenberg, Ph., 1935; Terebra hectica nimbosa (f) Dautzenberg, Ph., 1935; Terebra jamaicensis C.B. Adams, 1850; Terebra lamarckii Kiener, 1839; Terebra laurina Hinds, 1844; Terebra luctuosa Hinds, 1844; Terebra nimbosa Hinds, R.B., 1844;

Impages cinerea, common name the grey Atlantic auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 16 mm and 68 mm.

This species occurs in the Atlantic Ocean off Angola, Cape Verde, Senegal and Brazil; in the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and the Lesser Antilles; in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar; in the Pacific Ocean off Ecuador.

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Rosenberg, G., F. Moretzsohn, and E. F. García. 2009. Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

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