Acus maculatus

Oxymeris maculata

live Oxymeris maculata

shells of Oxymeris maculata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Conoidea
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Oxymeris
Species:	O. maculata
Binomial name
*Oxymeris maculata* (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Acus maculata (Linnaeus, 1758) Acus maculatus (Linnaeus, 1758) Buccinum luteolum Chenu, J.C., 1845 Buccinum maculatum Linnaeus, 1758 Buccinum varicosum Gmelin, J.F., 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)

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

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.