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Genus of gastropods

Zeacumantus
Apertural view of a beachworn shell of Zeacumantus lutulentus.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Family: Batillariidae
Genus: Zeacumantus
Finlay, 1926
Type species
Cerithium subcarinatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
Species

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

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

Species

Species in the genus include:

Synonyms:

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

References

  1. Finlay H. J. (3 December 1926). "A Further Commentary on New Zealand Molluscan Systematics". Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand 57: 320-485. page 380.
  2. 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
  3. Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  4. Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
  5. Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973

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. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x.
Taxon identifiers
Zeacumantus
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