Kingdom Animalia Superfamily Muricoidea Subfamily Muricinae Scientific name Haustellum haustellum Rank Species | Class Gastropoda Family Muricidae Genus Haustellum Phylum Mollusca | |
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Similar Haustellum, Homalocantha zamboi, Homalocantha, Bolinus cornutus, Hexaplex cichoreum | ||
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.
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Distribution
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
Paleontology
Haustellum haustellum is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo, the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.
References
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