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Haustellum
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Haustellum

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

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.

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5 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Snipe's Bill

speciesHaustellum haustellum

Haustellum langleitae

speciesHaustellum langleitae

tweed murex

speciesHaustellum tweedianum

Haustellum wilsoni

speciesHaustellum wilsoni

Haustellum kurodai

speciesHaustellum kurodai

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 246767.