Haustellum haustellum | |
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shell of Haustellum haustellum | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
Family: | Muricidae |
Subfamily: | Muricinae |
Genus: | Haustellum |
Species: | H. haustellum |
Binomial name | |
Haustellum haustellum (Linnaeus, 1758) |
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Synonyms | |
Aranea denudata Perry, 1811 |
Aranea denudata Perry, 1811
Haustellum laeve Schumacher, 1817
Murex erythrostoma Swainson, 1840
Murex haustellum Linnaeus, 1758
Murex scolopaceus Röding, 1798
Haustellum haustellum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. It is the type species of the genus Haustellum Schumacher, 1817.
Haustellum haustellum is known from Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands, northern Queensland in Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji,Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and the Red Sea
Haustellum haustellum is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo, the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the of the Malaysian Archipelago.