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) J. E. Gray, 1847 † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Lampania J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (of Batillaria)
Potamides (Batillaria) W. H. Benson, 1842 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Potamides (Lampania) J. E. Gray, 1847 † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (of Batillaria)
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 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Batillaria (Zeacumantus) H. J. Finlay, 1926 accepted as Zeacumantus H. J. Finlay, 1926 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- 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 superseded combination)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. (2026). 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 2026-07-14
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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. <em>Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University.</em> ser. B, 11(4): 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] Available for editors
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original description (of Lampania J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x [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. <em>Memoirs of the College of Science, Kyoto Imperial University.</em> ser. B, 11(4): 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] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Lampania J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2009.00390.x [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
