''Zeacumantus plumbeus'' is a
species
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of
sea snail, a marine
gastropod mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...
in the
family
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Batillariidae
Batillariidae, common name batillariids or mudcreepers, are a family of marine, cerithioidean gastropod molluscs in thesuperfamily Cerithioidea.
They consist of 14 living species, classified in six to eight genera.Ozawa, T., Köhler, F., Reid, D ...
.
References
Batillariidae
Gastropods described in 1855
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