Haustellum haustellum is a species

Species

In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

 of sea snail

Sea snail

Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family

Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 Muricidae

Muricidae

Muricidae, common name murex snails or rock snails, is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails. With approximately 1,600 living species the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogastropoda. Additionally, 1,200 fossil species have been recognised...

, the murex snails or rock snails.. It is the type species of the genus Haustellum

Haustellum

Haustellum is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.Ponder & Vokes and Vokes included American and Indo-Pacific species in Haustellum, which differ from Murex by lacking labral spine...

Schumacher, 1817.

Distribution

Haustellum haustellum is known from Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, Solomon Isl., northern Queensland, Australia, New Caledonia and Fiji (Merle et al. 2011).

• Madagascar
• Mascarene Basin
• Red Sea

Paleontology

Haustellum haustellum is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo (Beets, 1941), the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.

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