Terebra

Terebra
Terebra spp.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Terebridae
Genus: Terebra
Bruguière, 1789
Type species
Buccinum subulatum
Linnaeus, 1767
Synonyms
  • Cinguloterebra Oyama, 1961
  • Dimidacus Iredale, 1929
  • Myurellina Bartsch, 1923
  • Noditerebra Cossmann, 1896
  • Nototerebra Cotton, 1947
  • Panaterebra Olsson, 1967
  • Perirhoe (Dimidacus) Iredale, 1929
  • Paraterebra Woodring, 1928
  • Subula Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Dimidacus) Iredale, 1929
  • Terebra (Subula) Schumacher, 1817
  • Terebra (Triplostephanus) Dall, 1908
  • Terebrina Bartsch, 1923 (Invalid: junior homonym of Terebrina Rafinesque, 1815; Dimidacus is a replacement name)
  • Terebrum Montfort, 1810
  • Triplostephanus Dall, 1908
  • Vertagus Link, 1807

Terebra is a genus of small to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Terebrinae of the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Species in this genus do not possess a radula.