Big Auger

Q: Where can you find Big Auger?

Big Auger can be found in: Egypt East, Laccadive Islands, Mariana Islands, Australia West, Saudi Arabia West, Oman North, Malaysia East, Taiwan, Australia North, Marshall Islands, Malaysia West, Hawaii, Somalia East, Vanuatu, Sudan, Brunei, China, Myanmar, Eritrea, Australia, Hong Kong, Kenya, Qatar, India, Israel, USA West, Japan South, India East, India West, Thailand East, Thailand West, Israel South, Saudi Arabia East, Oman, Oman East, Somalia North, Australia East, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Vietnam, Seychelles, Cambodia, Indo-Pacific, Papua New Guinea, Iraq, Bangladesh, Polynesia, Singapore, Tanzania, Malaysia, Kuwait, Bahrain, USA, South Africa, Red Sea, Japan, Indonesia, Chagos Islands, Mozambique, Jordan, Palau, Philippines, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Micronesia, Egypt, Tonga and Samoa, Yemen, Mascarene Islands, Madagascar, Kiribati, Pakistan, Djibouti, Iran South, United Arab Emirates, Comoros, Fiji, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Somalia.

Oxymeris maculata

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Oxymeris maculata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

Other name: Crenulate Auger.

Description

Recognizable by the shell in the form of a curled turret, on a light background, dark rectangular spots along the spiral line of curls. It grows to 15 cm (usually 9-12 cm).

Distribution

This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off Aldabra, Chagos, Madagascar, the Mascarene Basin, Mauritius and Tanzania; in the Pacific Ocean off Mexico.