Biology:Haustellum haustellum

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Short description: Species of gastropod


Haustellum haustellum
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H. haustellum
Binomial name
Haustellum haustellum
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms[1]

Aranea denudata Perry, 1811
Haustellum laeve Schumacher, 1817
Murex erythrostoma Swainson, 1840
Murex haustellum Linnaeus, 1758
Murex scolopaceus Röding, 1798

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

Description

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. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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" (in German). Transactions of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands. Geological Series 13 (1): 1–218. 

Wikidata ☰ Q1443415 entry