Batillaria

Batillaria zonalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cerithioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Caenogastropoda Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Cerithioidea

Familia: Batillariidae
Genus: Batillaria
Species (7 + 2†): B. attramentaria – B. australis – B. flectosiphonata – B. multiformis – B. mutata – B. sordida – B. zonalis – †B. hectori – †B. pomahakensis

Name

Batillaria Benson, 1842

• Original status: valid genus
• Type species: Cerithium zonale Bruguière, 1792
  • Fixation: by monotypy

Synonyms

• Lampania Gray, 1847
• Velacumantus Iredale, 1936

References

• Ozawa, T., Köhler, F., Reid, 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 . Reference page. 

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Links

• Batillaria in the World Register of Marine Species