Zeacumantus
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Zeacumantus is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails or mud snails, marinegastropod mollusks in the family Potamididae, the horn snails.
This genus is sometimes still treated as if it were only a subgenus of the genus Batillaria.
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[edit] Habitat
These snails are found in great abundance in muddy, mid-tidal situations.
[edit] Shell description
The shells of this species are tall-spired, with a rounded to subquadrate aperture, simple sharp outer lip, and a very short, spout-like, anterior canal.
[edit] Species
- Zeacumantus diemenensis (Quoy, JRC & JP Gaimard, 1834)
- Zeacumantus lutulentus (Kiener,1841)
- Zeacumantus subcarinatus (Sowerby,1855)
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[edit] References
- 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 85467 054 8
- Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
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