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Terebra cumingii

species of mollusc

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ5120964 ↗
Source-derived summary

Terebra cumingii is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails.

References

Steyn, D.G & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore Shells of Southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 Gastropods. Published by the authors. Pp. i–vi, 1–289.

External links

Fedosov, A. E.; Malcolm, G.; Terryn, Y.; Gorson, J.; Modica, M. V.; Holford, M.; Puillandre, N. (2020). Phylogenetic classification of the family Terebridae (Neogastropoda: Conoidea).

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“Terebra cumingii” enters the record as species of mollusc. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Terebra, cumingii and species can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA sound reference starting point where classification, measurement and the date of the underlying evidence remain visible. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Terebra, cumingii and species.
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“Terebra cumingii” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Terebra, cumingii and species provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Datasets, specimens, observations and peer-reviewed methods provide the appropriate test for the technical claims summarized here. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5120964. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Terebra cumingii” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.