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Myurella pygmaea Pygmy Auger

Myurella pygmaea is commonly referred to as Pygmy Auger. Difficulty in the aquarium: There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully. Toxicity: Toxic hazard unknown.

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lexID:
14610 
AphiaID:
1417518 
Scientific:
Myurella pygmaea 
German:
Zwerg-Schraubenschnecke 
English:
Pygmy Auger 
Category:
Escargots de mer 
Family tree:
Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Terebridae (Family) > Myurella (Genus) > pygmaea (Species) 
Initial determination:
(Hinds, ), 1844 
Occurrence:
Guam, Indo Pacific, Marschall Islands, Mascarene Islands, New Zealand, Philippines 
Sea depth:
10 - 50 Meter 
Size:
0" - 0.39" (0,6cm - 1,3cm) 
Temperature:
°F - 77 °F (°C - 25°C) 
Food:
Predatory, Worms 
Difficulty:
There are no reports available yet that this animal has already been kept in captivity successfully 
Offspring:
Not available as offspring 
Toxicity:
Toxic hazard unknown 
CITES:
Not evaluated 
Red List:
Not evaluated (NE) 
Related species at
Catalog of Life:
  • Myurella acuminata
  • Myurella affinis
    Schraubenschnecke, Bohrschnecke
  • Myurella cinctella
  • Myurella columellaris
  • Myurella exiguoides
  • Myurella flavofasciata
  • Myurella hiscocki
  • Myurella joserosadoi
  • Myurella julacea
  • Myurella kilburni
 
More related species
in this lexicon:
 
Author:
Publisher:
Meerwasser-Lexikon.de
Created:
Last edit:
2022-03-16 19:48:48 

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Myurella pygmaea (Hinds, 1844)

Myurella pygmaea belongs to the family Terebridae.The shell is long, slender and smooth, operculum is horny. The snail live in warm or temperate waters, mostly in the intertidal zone on sand.

Myurella nebulosa is commonly known as the Pygmy Auger. Its feed on worms, which are hunted by a poison.

Synonymised names:
Terebra pygmaea Hinds, 1844 · unaccepted (original combination)
Terenolla pygmaea (Hinds, 1844) · unaccepted
Turbonilla princeps Preston, 1905 · unaccepted

External links

  1. nmr_general (NODE87) (en). Abgerufen am 17.03.2022.
  2. Underwaterkwaj (en). Abgerufen am 16.03.2022.
  3. WoRMS (en). Abgerufen am 16.03.2022.

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