Bathyacmaea

Bathyacmaea is a genus of deep-sea limpet, marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pectinodontidae. Species in this genus inhabit the dark, chemosynthesis-based marine communities of ocean vents and cold seeps near Japan.

Bathyacmaea
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Patellogastropoda
Superfamily:
Lottioidea
Family:
Pectinodontidae
Genus:
Bathyacmaea

Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 [1]
Type species
Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992

Species

Species within the genus Bathyacmaea include:[2]

  • Bathyacmaea jonassoni Beck, 1996
  • Bathyacmaea lactea S. Q. Zhang, J. L. Zhang & S. P. Zhang, 2016
  • Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
  • Bathyacmaea secunda Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993
  • Bathyacmaea subnipponica Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
  • Bathyacmaea tertia Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003

References
  1. Bouchet, P. (2013). Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391494 on 2013-09-26
  2. Bouchet, P. (2013). Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391494 on 2013-09-26
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