WoRMS taxon details
Batillaria W. H. Benson, 1842
370445 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:370445)
accepted
Genus
Cerithium zonale Bruguière, 1792 accepted as Batillaria zonalis (Bruguière, 1792) (type by monotypy)
Batillaria (Tateiwaia) Makiyama, 1936 † · alternative representation
Batillaria (Tateiwaia) yamanarii Makiyama, 1926 † · alternative representation
Cerithium proavitum Yokoyama, 1929 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Faunus (Lampania) Gray, 1847 † · unaccepted (Junior objective synonym of...)
Junior objective synonym of Batillaria, with the same type species
Lampania Gray, 1847 · unaccepted (Junior objective synonym of...)
Junior objective synonym of Batillaria, with the same type species
Potamides (Batillaria) W. H. Benson, 1842 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Potamides (Lampania) Gray, 1847 † · unaccepted (Junior objective synonym of...)
Junior objective synonym of Batillaria, with the same type species
Velacumantus Iredale, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Batillaria attramentaria (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855)
- Species Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Species Batillaria cumingii (Crosse, 1862)
- Species Batillaria flectosiphonata Ozawa, 1996
- Species Batillaria multiformis (Lischke, 1869)
- Species Batillaria mutata (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)
- Species Batillaria sordida (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Batillaria zonalis (Bruguière, 1792)
- Subgenus Batillaria (Batillariella) Thiele, 1929 accepted as Zeacumantus H. J. Finlay, 1926
- Subgenus Batillaria (Zeacumantus) H. J. Finlay, 1926 accepted as Zeacumantus H. J. Finlay, 1926 (superseded combination)
- Species Batillaria bornii (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855) accepted as Batillaria sordida (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Batillaria estuarina (Tate, 1893) accepted as Zeacumantus plumbeus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855)
- Species Batillaria minima (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Lampanella minima (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 488 [details]
page(s): 488 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Batillaria W. H. Benson, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=370445 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 488 [details]
original description (of Cerithium proavitum Yokoyama, 1929 †) Yokoyama, M. (1929). Neogene shells from some provinces of Chugoku. <em>Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo.</em> Section 2, vol. 2, pt. 8, pp. 363–368, pl. 70., available online at https://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoseibu/pdf/Ref_0496_.pdf
page(s): 366 [details]
original description (of Batillaria (Tateiwaia) Makiyama, 1936 †) Makiyama, J. (1936) The Meisen Miocene of North Korea. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, series B, 11, 193–228, pls. 4–5.
page(s): 219 [details]
original description (of Batillaria (Tateiwaia) yamanarii Makiyama, 1926 †) Makiyama, J. (1926). Tertiary fossils from North Kankyô-dô, Korea. <em>Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, series B.</em> 2(3): 143-160, pls. 12-13. [details]
original description (of Lampania Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 153 [details]
original description (of Velacumantus Iredale, 1936) Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [7 April 1936]., available online at https://journals.australianmuseum.net.au/iredale-1936-rec-aust-mus-195-267340/
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors
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basis of record 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). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 38, 503-525. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 488 [details]
original description (of Cerithium proavitum Yokoyama, 1929 †) Yokoyama, M. (1929). Neogene shells from some provinces of Chugoku. <em>Journal of the Faculty of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo.</em> Section 2, vol. 2, pt. 8, pp. 363–368, pl. 70., available online at https://umdb.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/DKoseibu/pdf/Ref_0496_.pdf
page(s): 366 [details]
original description (of Batillaria (Tateiwaia) Makiyama, 1936 †) Makiyama, J. (1936) The Meisen Miocene of North Korea. Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, series B, 11, 193–228, pls. 4–5.
page(s): 219 [details]
original description (of Batillaria (Tateiwaia) yamanarii Makiyama, 1926 †) Makiyama, J. (1926). Tertiary fossils from North Kankyô-dô, Korea. <em>Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University, series B.</em> 2(3): 143-160, pls. 12-13. [details]
original description (of Lampania Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 153 [details]
original description (of Velacumantus Iredale, 1936) Iredale, T. (1936). Australian molluscan notes, no. 2. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [7 April 1936]., available online at https://journals.australianmuseum.net.au/iredale-1936-rec-aust-mus-195-267340/
page(s): 292 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 38, 503-525. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
