''Batillaria'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

of small

salt marsh A salt marsh, saltmarsh or salting, also known as a coastal salt marsh or a tidal marsh, is a coastal ecosystem in the upper coastal intertidal zone between land and open saltwater or brackish water that is regularly flooded by the tides. I ...

or mudflat

snail A snail is a shelled gastropod. The name is most often applied to land snails, terrestrial molluscs, terrestrial pulmonate gastropod molluscs. However, the common name ''snail'' is also used for most of the members of the molluscan class Gas ...

s, marine

gastropod Gastropods (), commonly known as slugs and snails, belong to a large Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, freshwater, and fro ...

mollusk Mollusca is a phylum of protostomic invertebrate animals, whose members are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 76,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized, making it the second-largest animal phylum after Arthropoda. The ...

s in the family

Batillariidae Batillariidae, common name batillariids or mudcreepers, are a family (biology), family of marine (ocean), marine, cerithioidean gastropod molluscs in thesuperfamily Cerithioidea. They consist of 14 living species, classified in six to eight gene ...

, the horn snails.

Species

Species within the genus ''Batillaria'' include: * '' Batillaria attramentaria'' (G. B. Sowerby I, 1855) - Japanese false cerith * '' Batillaria australis'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) * '' Batillaria bornii'' (Sowerby II, 1887 in 1842–87) * '' Batillaria estuarina'' (Tate, 1893) * '' Batillaria flectosiphonata'' Ozawa, 1996 * ''

Batillaria multiformis ''Batillaria multiformis'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the Family (biology), family Batillariidae. They are colloquially known as salt marsh or mudflat snails, due to their benthic nature in intertidal zones and sal ...

'' (Lischke, 1869) * '' Batillaria mutata'' (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902) * '' Batillaria sordida'' Gmelin, 1791 * '' Batillaria zonalis'' (Bruguière, 1792) - Japanese false cerith, synonyms: ''Batillaria aterrima'', ''Batillaria atramenfaria'', ''Batillaria cumingi'' and also (cotroversely with above) ''Batillaria multiformis''
ITIS, accessed 26 June 2011. Synonyms: * ''Batillaria minima'' (Gmelin, 1791) - West Indian false cerith, is a synonym of '' Lampanella minima'' (Gmelin, 1791)

References

* 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

External links

* Batillariidae Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Batillariidae-stub

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