Zeacumantus Explained

Zeacumantus is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae.^[1]

This genus is sometimes still treated as if it were a subgenus of the genus Batillaria (Batillariidae).

Species

Species in the genus include:^{[2] [3] [4]}

• Zeacumantus diemenensis (Quoy, JRC & JP Gaimard, 1834)
• Zeacumantus lutulentus (Kiener, 1841)
• Zeacumantus plumbeus(G. B. Sowerby II, 1855)
• Zeacumantus subcarinatus (Sowerby, 1855)

Synonyms:

• Zeacumantus delicatus Laws, 1950 is a synonym of Pyrazus ebeninus (Bruguière, 1792)

External links

• 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. .

Notes and References

1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Zeacumantus Finlay, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446432 on 2011-04-09
2. [Arthur William Baden Powell|Powell A. W. B.]
3. Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979
4. Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973