Duplicaria duplicata

Duplicaria duplicata, commonly referred to as the duplicate auger, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.^[1]

Duplicaria duplicata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Duplicaria
Species:	D. duplicata
Binomial name
Duplicaria duplicata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]
Buccinum duplicatum Linnaeus, 1758 Diplomeriza duplicata (Linnaeus, 1758) Myurella duplicatoides Bartsch, 1923 Noditerebra duplicata (Linnaeus, 1758) Terebra duplicata (Linnaeus, 1758) Terebra lamarckii Kiener, 1839 Terebra reevei Deshayes, 1857 Vertagus duplicatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Description

The size of the shell varies between 20 mm and 93 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs in the Red Sea, in the Indian Ocean off Madagascar and Tanzania; off Japan and the Solomon Islands.