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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
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- 1 2 3 Haustellum haustellum (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
- ↑ Merle, D.; Garrigues, B.; Pointier, J.-P. (2011). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World, Part Muricinae. Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3-939767-32-9.
- ↑ Beets, Cornelis (1941). "Eine jungmiocäne Mollusken Fauna von der Halbinsel Mangkalihat, Ost-Borneo" [A molluscan fauna from the Late Miocene Mangkalihat Peninsula, East Borneo]. Transactions of the Royal Geological and Mining Society of the Netherlands. Geological Series (in German). 13 (1): 1–218.
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