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Mud-creeper Snails
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Mud-creeper Snails

Batillariidae

Batillariidae, common name batillariids or mudcreepers, are a family of marine, cerithioidean gastropod molluscs in thesuperfamily Cerithioidea.

They consist of 14 living species, classified in six to eight genera.

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6 branches of this family, most-observed first

Batillaria

genusBatillaria

Zeacumantus

genusZeacumantus

Pyrazus

genusPyrazus

Lampanella

genusLampanella

Rhinocoryne

genusRhinocoryne

Pyrazisinus

genusPyrazisinus

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