Batillaria
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Batillaria is a genus
of small salt marsh
or mudflat snail
s, marine
gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae
, the horn snails.
Synonyms:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small salt marsh
Salt marsh
A salt marsh is an environment in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and salt water or brackish water, it is dominated by dense stands of halophytic plants such as herbs, grasses, or low shrubs. These plants are terrestrial in origin and are essential to the stability of the salt marsh...
or mudflat snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae
Batillariidae
Batillariidae, common name batillariids or mudcreepers, are a family of marine, cerithioidean gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.They consist of 14 living species, classified in six to eight genera....
, the horn snails.
Species
Species within the genus Batillaria include:- Batillaria attramentariaBatillaria attramentariaBatillaria attramentaria, common name the Japanese false cerith, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
(G. B. Sowerby I, 1855) - Japanese false cerith - Batillaria australisBatillaria australisBatillaria australis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
(Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) - Batillaria bornii (Sowerby II, 1887 in 1842-87)
- Batillaria estuarinaBatillaria estuarinaBatillaria estuarina is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
(Tate, 1893) - Batillaria flectosiphonataBatillaria flectosiphonataBatillaria flectosiphonata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
Ozawa, 1996 - Batillaria multiformisBatillaria multiformisBatillaria multiformis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae.-External links:*...
(Lischke, 1869) - Batillaria mutataBatillaria mutataBatillaria mutata is a species of small mudflat saltwater snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails....
(Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902) - Batillaria sordidaBatillaria sordidaBatillaria sordida is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
Gmelin, 1791 - Batillaria zonalisBatillaria zonalisBatillaria zonalis is a species of small sandy shore snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae, the horn snails.- Further reading :...
(Bruguière, 1792) - Japanese false cerith, synonyms: Batillaria aterrima, Batillaria atramenfaria, Batillaria cumingi and also (cotroversely with above) Batillaria multiformis
Synonyms:
- Batillaria minima (Gmelin, 1791) - West Indian false cerith, is a synonym of Lampanella minimaLampanella minimaLampanella minima is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....
(Gmelin, 1791)
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 ScriptaZoologica ScriptaZoologica Scripta is a bi-monthly scientific journal on systematic zoology, published by Blackwell Publishing Limited, on behalf of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences...
38(5): 503-525. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x.