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[1]
  • 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.

Distribution

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.

References

  1. 1 2 Impages cinerea (Born, 1778).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 15 October 2012.
  • Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.
  • Bouchet P. (1983 ["1982"]) Les Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de l'Atlantique oriental. Bollettino Malacologico 18: 185-216.
  • Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp.
  • Terryn Y. (2007). Terebridae: A Collectors Guide. Conchbooks & NaturalArt. 59pp + plates.
  • 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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