Zeacumantus
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Zeacumantus is a genus
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 to medium-sized sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....

s or mud snails, 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
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 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....

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This genus is sometimes still treated as if it were a subgenus of the genus Batillaria
Batillaria
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 Batillaria is a genus of small salt marsh or mudflat snails, marine gastropod mollusks...

(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....

).

Species

Species in the genus include:
  • Zeacumantus diemenensis
    Zeacumantus diemenensis
    Zeacumantus diemenensis is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....

    (Quoy, JRC & JP Gaimard, 1834)
  • Zeacumantus lutulentus
    Zeacumantus lutulentus
    Zeacumantus lutulentus is a species of medium-sized sea snail or mud snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae, the horn snails. - Distribution :This species occurs in:* New Zealand* Australia-References:...

    (Kiener, 1841)
  • Zeacumantus subcarinatus
    Zeacumantus subcarinatus
    Zeacumantus subcarinatus , common name the southern creeper, is a species of small sea snail or mud snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Potamididae, the horn snails. -Description:...

    (Sowerby, 1855)


Synonyms:
  • Zeacumantus delicatus Laws, 1950 is a synonym of Pyrazus ebeninus
    Pyrazus ebeninus
    Pyrazus ebeninus, commonly known as Hercules Club Mud Whelk, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae....

    (Bruguière, 1792)

External links

  • 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
    Zoologica Scripta
    Zoologica 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: 503-­525. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x.
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