| Bayerotrochus | |
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| Apertural view with operculum of a shell of Bayerotrochus westralis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Pleurotomariida |
| Family: | Pleurotomariidae |
| Genus: | Bayerotrochus Harasewych, 2002 |
| Type species | |
| Perotrochus midas Bayer, 1965
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Bayerotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae.[1]
The generic name Bayerotrochus is in honor of marine biologist Frederick Bayer.[2]
The shells of the snails in this genus show a selenizone.
- ^ Bayerotrochus. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 9 September 2010.
- ^ Cairns S. D. (2008). "Frederick M. Bayer – Commissioner 1972-1995, octocoral taxonomist and Smithsonian curator". Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 65(2): 86-87.