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Updated 8/24/2025

Family Terebridae

INDO-PACIFIC / HAWAII

Oxymeris felina

Nanakuli, Oahu, 25 feet, 32mm

 

CAT AUGER

Rare in Hawaii but common elsewhere in sand at any depth.  Smooth with a shallow subsutural band and one row of brown spots.  Attains 3.5 inches, 90mm.  Red Sea to Hawaii and the Society Islands.  Formerly known as Terebra felina, and similar to the Hawaiian endemic Oxymeris suffusa.