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Updated 6/24/2024

Family Terebridae

ASIAN PACIFIC / HAWAII

Terebra (Myurellopsis) paucistriata

23mm, Makua, Oahu, 50 feet

 

LIGHTLY- STRIATED AUGER

Very rare at scuba depths.  Shell slender with strong axial ribs, subsutural nodules & adjacent rib light, dark between ribs.  Attains 1.75 inch.   Cocos-Keeling to Hawaii and French Polynesia.