WoRMS taxon details
Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
446433 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:446433)
accepted
Species
Cerithidea alternata (F. W. Hutton, 1873) · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Cerithium alternatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855
Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pyrazus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Velacumantus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 3: 131, pl. 55 fig. 7 [details]
page(s): 3: 131, pl. 55 fig. 7 [details]
Type locality contained in New South Wales
type locality contained in New South Wales [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446433 on 2026-09-03
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868
page(s): 26 [details]
original description (of Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 3: 131, pl. 55 fig. 7 [details]
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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page(s): 26 [details]
original description (of Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 3: 131, pl. 55 fig. 7 [details]
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 Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Batillaria australis)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Velacumantus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))
To Malacopics (Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Australia, Western Australia, Fremantle...
To Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (M.000144; Cerithium alternatum Hutton, 1873; holotype) (from synonym Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Batillaria australis)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Cerithium australe Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Velacumantus australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834))
To Malacopics (Batillaria australis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Australia, Western Australia, Fremantle...
To Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (M.000144; Cerithium alternatum Hutton, 1873; holotype) (from synonym Cerithium alternatum F. W. Hutton, 1873)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
