Batillaria

Batillaria
Batillaria zonalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily: Cerithioidea
Family: Batillariidae
Genus: Batillaria
Benson, 1842[1]
Type species
Cerithium zonale Bruguière, 1792
Synonyms[2]

Lampania Gray, 1847

Batillaria is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.

Species

Species within the genus Batillaria include:

Synonyms:

  • Batillaria minima (Gmelin, 1791) - West Indian false cerith, is a synonym of Lampanella minima (Gmelin, 1791)

References

  1. Benson (1842). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 488.
  2. OBIS : Batillaria
  3. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria attramentaria (G. B. Sowerby I, 1855). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397021 on 2011-06-26
  4. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446433 on 2011-06-26
  5. Batillaria. OBIS.
  6. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria estuarina (Tate, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446434 on 2011-06-26
  7. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria flectosiphonata Ozawa, 1996. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446435 on 2011-06-26
  8. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria multiformis (Lischke, 1869). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446436 on 2011-06-26
  9. Finet Y. (1996). Batillaria mutata. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.1. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 June 2011.
  10. WoRMS (2010). Batillaria sordida Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446437 on 2011-06-26
  11. Bouchet, P. (2011). Batillaria zonalis (Bruguière, 1792). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397022 on 2011-06-26
  12. . ITIS, accessed 26 June 2011.
  • 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.


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