Hastula salleana

Hastula salleana
Shell of Hastula salleana (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Terebridae
Genus:	Hastula
Species:	H. salleana
Binomial name
Hastula salleana (Deshayes, 1859)
Synonyms [1]
Impages salleana(Deshayes, 1859) Terebra sallaeanaDeshayes, 1859 (original spelling) Terebra salleanaDeshayes, 1859

Hastula salleana is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Terebridae, the auger snails. ^[1]

Description

The length of the shell varies between 13 mm and 40 mm.

Distribution

This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico off Northwest Florida, USA; in the Caribbean Sea off Martinique, Colombia; in the Atlantic Ocean off Central Brazil.

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Hastula salleana (Deshayes, 1859). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420229 on 2021-03-19

• Terryn Y. (2020). A review of Western Atlantic Hastula (Conoidea: Terebridae), with the description of a new species from Mexico. Gloria Maris. 59(3): 102-107. page(s): 103, pl. 1 figs 16-18, pl. 2 fig. 1
• Bratcher T. & Cernohorsky W.O. (1987). Living terebras of the world. A monograph of the recent Terebridae of the world. American Malacologists, Melbourne, Florida & Burlington, Massachusetts. 240pp

External links

• Media related to Hastula salleana at Wikimedia Commons
• Deshayes G.P. (1859). A general review of the genus Terebra, and a description of new species. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 27: 270-321
• Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
• 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). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 85(4): 359-388