Haustrum lacunosum

Haustrum lacunosum is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Haustrum lacunosum
Shell of Haustrum lacunosum (paralectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Muricidae
Genus:	Haustrum
Species:	H. lacunosum
Binomial name
Haustrum lacunosum (Bruguière, 1789)
Synonyms
Buccinum bicostatum Bruguière, 1789 Buccinum lacunosa Bruguière, 1789 Lepsithais lacunosa (Bruguière, 1789) Lepsithais youngi Finlay, 1928 Polytropa squamata Hutton, 1878 Purpura rupestris Valenciennes, 1846 Purpura striatum sensu Martyn Deshayes, 1844

Description

The length of the shell varies between 20 mm and 53 mm.

Distribution

This marine species occurs off New Zealand.

References

• Valenciennes, A. (1846). Atlas de Zoologie. Mollusques. In: A. du Petit-Thouars, Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Venus pendant les années 1836–1839. 4 vols.
• Finlay, H. J. (1928). The Recent Mollusca of the Chatham Islands. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 232–286.
• Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. pp. 196–219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press,

External links

• Bruguière J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344
• Gray J.E. (1843). Catalogue of the species of Mollusca and their shells, which have hitherto been recorded as found at New Zealand, with the description of some lately discovered species. In: Dieffenbach, E.: Travels in New Zealand; with contributions to the geography, geology, botany, and natural history of that country, vol. 2: 228-265
• Hutton F.W. (1878). Révision des coquilles de la Nouvelle-Zélande et des Iles Chatham. Journal de Conchyliologie. 26: 5-57
• Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265
• Tan K. S. (2003) Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37(8): 911-1028