Batillaria

Batillaria
Batillaria zonalis
Scientific classification
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

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:

• 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

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". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 1996 e.T2637A9463522. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2637A9463522.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
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.

External links

• Media related to Batillaria at Wikimedia Commons