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Chocolate spotted auger
Terebra subulata
Valid name (WoRMS, AphiaID 208080, checked 2026-10-31).
- English
- Chocolate spotted auger
- Scientific
- Terebra subulata
- Dhivehi
- No recorded Dhivehi name
- Group
- Sea snails
- Maximum size
- Up to about 17 cm (shell length)
- Depth and habitat
- Sea floor (benthic), recorded from 0 to 10 m
- IUCN status
- NE · Not EvaluatedNot Evaluated (NE)
Description
The chocolate spotted auger has a long, slender, pointed shell with rows of squarish dark brown spots on a cream background. It lives buried in sand in shallow water.
In the Maldives
Recorded from the Maldives: museum specimens (n=15); iNaturalist research-grade observations in the Maldives (n=10, 7 observers).
Sources
- sealifebase.se /summary/Terebra-subulata.html
- marinespecies.org /aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208080
- inaturalist.org /taxa/368661
- commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/File:Terebra_subulata_01.JPG
Dhivehi name source: No species-level Dhivehi name found in Dhivehi Wikipedia, SeaLifeBase (country: Maldives) or MRS/MMRI invertebrate publications.