''Batillaria zonalis'' is a species of small sandy shore

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 ...

, a 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 ...

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.

Distribution

Japan Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asia, Asian mainland, it is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan and extends from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea ...

''Batillaria zonalis''
. accessed 17 October 2009 Batillaria zonalis and Clithon oualaniense

References

* Driscoll A. L. (1972). "Structure and function of the alimentary tract of ''Batillaria zonalis'' and '' Cerithidea californica'': style-bearing mesogastropods". ''Veliger'' 14: 375–386. * (2005
"Phylogeography of the endangered tideland snail ''Batillaria zonalis'' in the Japanese and Ryukyu Islands"
'' Ecological Research'' * (2004) "The effect of feeding behavior of the gastropods ''Batillaria zonalis'' and '' Cerithideopsilla cingulata'' on their ambient environment"
abstract
Batillariidae Gastropods described in 1792 Marine gastropods {{Batillariidae-stub

Distribution

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