Haustellum haustellum explained

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

Distribution

Haustellum haustellum is known from Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Solomon Islands, northern Queensland in Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji,^[1] Madagascar, the Mascarene basin and the Red Sea

Paleontology

Haustellum haustellum is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo,^[2] the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.

Notes and References

1. Book: Merle . D. . Garrigues . B. . Pointier . J.-P. . 2011 . Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World, Part Muricinae. . Hackenheim . 978-3-939767-32-9.
2. 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. 13. 1. Geological Series. 1–218. German.