Haustrum scobina

Haustrum scobina
Haustrum scobina
Haustrum scobina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Haustrinae
Genus: Haustrum
Species: H. scobina
Binomial name
Haustrum scobina
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
Synonyms[1]

Purpura albomarginata Deshayes, 1839
Purpura bicolor Lesson, 1842
Purpura rugosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Purpura scobina Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
Purpura scobina var. rutila Suter, 1899
Purpura tristis Dunker in Dunker & Zelabor, 1866
Lepsiella scobina

Haustrum scobina, or the oyster borer, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Contents

Description

Distribution

Oyster borers use a mucous layer that surrounds the entrance to their shell to prevent dessiccation in the midlittoral and high tidal zones.

References

  1. ^ a b Haustrum scobina (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833).  Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=395190 on 24 April 2010.

Further reading

  • Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
  • Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • Beu, A. G. 1990. Molluscan generic diversity of New Zealand Neogene stages: extinction and biostratigraphic events. - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 77: 279-288.
  • Tan, K. S. 2003. Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). - Journal of Natural History 37: 911–1028.

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