Biology:Hastula salleana

Short description: Species of gastropod

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

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

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

• 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

• 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.
• 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

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