Genus Batillaria Benson, 1842

Museums

Regional Maps

• Batillaria Benson, W.H. 1842. Mollusca. pp. 486-490 in Cantor, T. (ed). General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 9: 481-493 [488, 489].

  Type species:

   Cerithium zonale Lamarck by monotypy.
• Lampania Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [129].
• Velacumantus Iredale, T. 1936. Australian molluscan notes. No. 2. Records of the Australian Museum 19(5): 267-340, pls 20-24 [292].

  Type species:

   Cerithium australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 by original designation.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Indo-west Pacific, to Japan

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

General 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(5): 503-525

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [114]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
01-Jun-2021	CERITHIOIDEA	30-Oct-2018	MODIFIED	Mr Des Beechey Ingo Burghardt (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri
01-Jun-2021	BATILLARIIDAE	15-Feb-2012	MODIFIED	Dr Winston Ponder (AM) Mr Des Beechey (AM) Dr Peter Middelfart (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM)
		20-Sep-2011	MODIFIED