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.

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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Bouchet P. (1983 ["1982"]) Les Terebridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda) de l'Atlantique oriental. Bollettino Malacologico 18: 185-216.
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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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