''Haustellum kurodai'' is a

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

sea snail Sea snail is a common name for slow-moving marine gastropod molluscs, usually with visible external shells, such as whelk or abalone. They share the taxonomic class Gastropoda with slugs, which are distinguished from snails primarily by the ...

, a marine

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mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the

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Muricidae Muricidae is a large and varied taxonomic family of small to large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, commonly known as murex snails or rock snails. With about 1,600 living species, the Muricidae represent almost 10% of the Neogas ...

, the murex snails or rock snails. ;Subspecies: * ''Haustellum kurodai kurodai'' (Shikama, 1964): synonym of ''Haustellum kurodai'' Shikama, 1964 * ''Haustellum kurodai langleitae'' Houart, 1993: synonym of ''Haustellum langleitae'' Houart, 1993 * ''Haustellum kurodai vicdani'' Kosuge, 1980: synonym of ''Haustellum vicdani'' Kosuge, 1980

Description

Distribution

References

* Shikama, T. 1964. ''Description of a new species of Murex and Conus from the Arafura Sea''. Venus 23(1): 33–37, pl. 3 * Houart R. (2014). ''Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus''. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp. Haustellum Gastropods described in 1964 {{Muricidae-stub