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Updated 8/20/2025

Family Terebridae

ASIAN PACIFIC / HAWAII

Myurellopsis paucistriata

Makua, Oahu, 50 feet, 23mm

 

LIGHTLY- STRIATED AUGER

Very rare at scuba depths.  Shell slender with strong axial ribs, subsutural nodules & adjacent rib light, dark between ribs.  Attains 1.7 inches, 45mm.   Cocos-Keeling to Hawaii and French Polynesia.  Formerly known as Terebra paucistriata.