Zeacumantus is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Batillariidae.[2]
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| Apertural view of a beachworn shell of Zeacumantus lutulentus. | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Family: | Batillariidae |
| Genus: | Zeacumantus Finlay, 1926[1] |
| Type species | |
| Cerithium subcarinatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855 | |
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This genus is sometimes still treated as if it were a subgenus of the genus Batillaria (Batillariidae).
Species
editSpecies in the genus include:[3][4][5]
- 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)
References
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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.
- ^ 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
- ^ Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
- ^ Glen Pownall, New Zealand Shells and Shellfish, Seven Seas Publishing Pty Ltd, Wellington, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-85467-054-8
- ^ Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
External links
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- 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.