Haustellum haustellum



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, 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.