Haustellum haustellum

Haustellum haustellum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Haustellum
Species:	H. haustellum
Binomial name
Haustellum haustellum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms [1]
Aranea denudataPerry, 1811 Haustellum laeveSchumacher, 1817 Murex erythrostomaSwainson, 1840 Murex haustellumLinnaeus, 1758 Murex scolopaceusRöding, 1798

Haustellum haustellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. ^[1] It is the type species of the genus Haustellum Schumacher, 1817.

Distribution

Haustellum haustellum is known from Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands, northern Queensland in Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, ^[2] Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and the Red Sea ^[1]

Paleontology

Haustellum haustellum is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo, ^[3] the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.

References

1. Haustellum haustellum (Linnaeus, 1758) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 24 April 2010.
2. Merle, D.; Garrigues, B.; Pointier, J.-P. (2011). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World, Part Muricinae. Hackenheim. ISBN   978-3-939767-32-9.
3. Beets, Cornelis (1941). "Eine jungmiocäne Mollusken Fauna von der Halbinsel Mangkalihat, Ost-Borneo" [A molluscan fauna from the Late Miocene Mangkalihat Peninsula, East Borneo]. Transactions of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands. Geological Series (in German). 13 (1): 1–218.