Batillaria australis

Batillaria australis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae.[1]

Batillaria australis
Shell of Batillaria australis (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Sorbeoconcha
Superfamily:
Cerithioidea
Family:
Batillariidae
Genus:
Batillaria
Species:
B. australis
Binomial name
Batillaria australis
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
  • Cerithidea alternata Hutton, 1873
  • Cerithium alternatum Hutton, 1873 (synonym & homonym)
  • Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 (original combination)
  • Velacumantus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

Description

Distribution

References
  1. Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 May 2010.
  • 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.


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