Species of gastropod
| Oxymeris maculata
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| live Oxymeris maculata
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| shells of Oxymeris maculata
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain:
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Eukaryota
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| Kingdom:
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Animalia
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| Phylum:
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Mollusca
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| Class:
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Gastropoda
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| Subclass:
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Caenogastropoda
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| Order:
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Neogastropoda
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| Family:
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Terebridae
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| Genus:
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Oxymeris
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| Species:
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O. maculata
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| Binomial name
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Oxymeris maculata
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| Synonyms[1]
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- Acus maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Acus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Buccinum luteolum Chenu, 1845
- Buccinum maculatum Linnaeus, 1758
- Buccinum varicosum Gmelin, 1791
- Subula maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Terebra maculata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Terebra maculata confluens Dautzenberg, 1935
- Terebra maculata roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1970
- Terebra maculosa Pfeiffer, 1840
- Terebra roosevelti Bartsch & Rehder, 1939
- Vertagus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Oxymeris maculata, common name the marlinspike auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.[1]
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; also off Papua New Guinea.
