Batillaria is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.
| Batillaria | |
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| Batillaria zonalis | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Batillariidae |
| Genus: | Batillaria Benson, 1842[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cerithium zonale Bruguière, 1792 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
Lampania Gray, 1847 | |
Species
Species within the genus Batillaria include:
- Batillaria attramentaria (G. B. Sowerby I, 1855)[3] - Japanese false cerith
- Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)[4]
- Batillaria bornii (Sowerby II, 1887 in 1842–87)[5]
- Batillaria estuarina (Tate, 1893)[6]
- Batillaria flectosiphonata Ozawa, 1996[7]
- Batillaria multiformis (Lischke, 1869)[8]
- Batillaria mutata (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)[9]
- Batillaria sordida Gmelin, 1791[10]
- Batillaria zonalis (Bruguière, 1792)[11] - Japanese false cerith, synonyms: Batillaria aterrima, Batillaria atramenfaria, Batillaria cumingi and also (cotroversely with above) Batillaria multiformis[12]
Synonyms:
- Batillaria minima (Gmelin, 1791) - West Indian false cerith, is a synonym of Lampanella minima (Gmelin, 1791)
References
- Ozawa, T., Köhler, F., Reid, D.G. & Glaubrecht, M. (2009). Tethyan relicts on continental coastlines of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Australasia: molecular phylogeny and fossil record of batillariid gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea). Zoologica Scripta, 38: 503-525
Further reading
- Ozawa T., Köhler F., Reid D. G. & Glaubrecht M. (2009). "Tethyan relicts on continental coastlines of the northwestern Pacific Ocean and Australasia: molecular phylogeny and fossil record of batillariid gastropods (Caenogastropoda, Cerithioidea)". Zoologica Scripta 38(5): 503–525. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x.
External links
Media related to Batillaria at Wikimedia Commons
