Haustellum is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1] Like many other genera within the Muricidae, the genus has been redefined several times.

Haustellum
Shell of Haustellum bengalense (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Muricinae
Genus: Haustellum
Schumacher, 1817
Type species
Murex haustellum Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
  • Brontes Montfort, 1810
  • Brontesia Reichenbach, 1828
  • Haustellaria Swainson, 1833
  • Murex (Haustellum)

Ponder & Vokes (1988) and Vokes (1990) included American and Indo-Pacific species in Haustellum, which differs from Murex sensu stricto by lacking a labral spine.

Petuch (1994) introduced Vokesimurex for the American long-canalled Haustellum sensu Vokes (1990), such as Murex messorius Sowerby, 1841.

Houart (1999) transferred 14 Indo-Pacific species and three subspecies of Haustellum in the genus Vokesimurex.

As currently defined, Haustellum is represented by eight to nine species. Members of Haustellum generally differ from those of Vokesimurex in having a globose and low-spired shape, a more rounded aperture, a smooth columella, a less deep anal notch, and no cord spine.

Species edit

Species within the genus Haustellum include:

Species brought into synonymy

Paleontology edit

There is no record of extinct species in the geological register. The oldest member is the type species Haustellum haustellum from the Indo-Pacific province. It is recorded from the Miocene of Borneo (Beets, 1941), the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.

References edit

  1. ^ a b Haustellum Schumacher, 1817. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2011.
  2. ^ Haustellum barbieri Houart, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  3. ^ Haustellum bondarevi Houart, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  4. ^ Haustellum fallax (E. A. Smith, 1901). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  5. ^ Haustellum franchii Bozzetti, 1993. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  6. ^ Haustellum haustellum (Linnaeus, 1758). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  7. ^ Haustellum kurodai Shikama, 1964. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  8. ^ Haustellum longicaudum (F. C. Baker, 1891). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  9. ^ Haustellum tweedianum (Macpherson, 1962). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  10. ^ Haustellum wilsoni D'Attilio & Old, 1971. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
  11. ^ Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2009). Bolinus brandaris (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140389 on 2010-08-31
  • Schumacher C.F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen pp. [IV] + 288 + 22 pl.
  • Beets, C. (1941). Eine jungmiocäne Mollusken Fauna von der Halbinsel Mangkalihat, Ost Borneo. Verhandelingen Geologisch-Mijnbouwkunig Genootshap Nederland en Kolonien. Geologisch Serie 13 (1): 1-218.
  • Houart, R. (1999). Review of the Indo-Pacific species of Haustellum Schumacher, 1817 and comments on Vokesimurex Petuch, 1994 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) with the description of H. bondarevi n. sp. Apex 14 (3-8): 81-107.
  • Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.-P. (2011). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the World, Part Muricinae. 648 pp., 182 colour plates, Hackenheim. ISBN 978-3-939767-32-9.
  • Petuch, E. J. (1994). Atlas of Florida fossil shells. 394 pp. Chicago.
  • Ponder, W. F. & Vokes, E. H. (1988). A revision of the Indo-West Pacific fossil and recent Species of Murex s.s. and Haustellum (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae). Records of the Australian Museum, Suppl. 8: 1-160.
  • Vokes, E. H. (1990): Cenozoic Muricidae of the Western Atlantic region, Part VIII - Murex s.s., Haustellum, Chicoreus, Hexaplex; additions and corrections. Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology 23 (1-3): 1-96.
  • Houart R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.