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 and Vokes included American and Indo-Pacific species in Haustellum, which differs from Murex sensu stricto by lacking a labral spine.
Petuch introduced Vokesimurex for the American long-canalled Haustellum sensu Vokes, such as Murex messorius Sowerby, 1841.
Houart 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

Species within the genus Haustellum include:
;Species brought into synonymy:
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, the Pliocene of Java, Indonesia and the Plio-Pleistocene of the Malaysian Archipelago.