Oxymeris
Encyclopedia
Oxymeris is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Terebridae
, the auger snails.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine gastropod mollusks in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Terebridae
Terebridae
The Terebridae, commonly referred to as auger shells or auger snails, are a group or taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks....
, the auger snails.
Species
Species within the genus Oxymeris include:- Oxymeris albida (Gray, 1834)
- Oxymeris areolata (Link, 1807)
- Oxymeris caledonica (G.B. Sowerby III, 1909)
- Oxymeris chlorata (Lamarck, 1822)
- Oxymeris costellifera (Pease, 1869)
- Oxymeris crenulata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Oxymeris dillwynii (Deshayes, 1859)
- Oxymeris dimidiata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Oxymeris fatua (Hinds, 1844)
- Oxymeris felina (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Oxymeris maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Oxymeris senegalensis (Lamarck, 1822)
- Oxymeris strigata (G.B. Sowerby I, 1825)
- Oxymeris suffusa (Pease, 1889)
- Oxymeris trochlea (Deshayes, 1857)
- Oxymeris troendlei (Bratcher, 1981)