Bathymophila

Bathymophila
Bathymophila micans shell
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Vetigastropoda
Order: Trochida
Superfamily: Trochoidea
Family: Solariellidae
Genus: Bathymophila
Dall, 1881[1]
Type species
Margarites euspira
Dall, 1881
Species

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Synonyms[2]
  • Ethaliopsis Schepman, 1908
  • Margarita (Bathymophila) Dall, 1881 (original rank)
  • Solariella (Ethaliopsis) Schepman, 1908

Bathymophila is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.[2]

Previously Bathymophila was brought under the subfamily Margaritinae, because of the resemblance of its shell with Margarites Gray, 1847

  1. ^ Dall (1881). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 9: 102.
  2. ^ a b Bathymophila. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 May 2012.