''Batillaria'' is a
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of small
salt marsh
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snail
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s,
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gastropod
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mollusk
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s in the family
Batillariidae, 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
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'' (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
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 Scripta'' 38(5): 503-525. .
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