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Zeacumantus subcarinatus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Family:	Batillariidae
Genus:	Zeacumantus
Species:	Z. subcarinatus
Binomial name
Zeacumantus subcarinatus (Sowerby II, 1855)
Synonyms
Cerithidea tricarinata Hutton, 1883 Cerithium subcarinatum G.B. Sowerby II, 1855 (basionym)

Zeacumantus subcarinatus, common name the southern creeper, is a species of small sea snail or mud snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Batillariidae.

Distribution

This species is found on the coasts of New Zealand and Australia (New South Wales).

Description

The size of an adult shell varies between 8 mm and 16 mm.

References

1. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Zeacumantus subcarinatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1855)". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2021-03-03.

• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Miller M & Batt G, Reef and Beach Life of New Zealand, William Collins (New Zealand) Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1973
• 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
• Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp

External links

• "Batillaria (Zeacumantus) bicarinata subcarinata". Gastropods.com. Retrieved 9 April 2011.
• Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995

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