Batillaria zonalis
Encyclopedia
Batillaria zonalis is a species of small sandy shore snail
, a marine
gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae
, the horn snails.
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
, a marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod mollusk in the family Batillariidae
Batillariidae
Batillariidae, common name batillariids or mudcreepers, are a family of marine, cerithioidean gastropod molluscs in the clade Sorbeoconcha.They consist of 14 living species, classified in six to eight genera....
, the horn snails.
Further reading
- Driscoll A. L. (1972). "Structure and function of the alimentary tract of Batillaria zonalis and Cerithidea californicaCerithidea californicaCerithidea californica, common name the California hornsnail or the California horn snail, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Potamididae.-Distribution:...
: style-bearing mesogastropods". Veliger 14: 375-386. - (2005) "Phylogeography of the endangered tideland snail Batillaria zonalis in the Japanese and Ryukyu Islands". Ecological Research
- (2004) "The effect of feeding behavior of the gastropods Batillaria zonalis and Cerithideopsilla cingulata on their ambient environment". abstract