Batillaria australis

Batillaria australis
Shell of Batillaria australis (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Batillariidae
Genus:	Batillaria
Species:	B. australis
Binomial name
Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
Synonyms
Cerithidea alternataHutton, 1873 Cerithium alternatumHutton, 1873 (synonym & homonym) Cerithium australeQuoy & Gaimard, 1834 (original combination) Velacumantus australis(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)

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

The species occurs along the coasts of Australia. ^[2]

References

1. Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 May 2010.
2. Australia, Atlas of Living. "Species: Batillaria australis (Mud Creeper)". bie.ala.org.au. Retrieved 10 June 2024.

• 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.