Bathymophila

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

See text

Synonyms
  • 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.

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

Description

The shell has a broad flattened columella, which has a blunt tooth, rough or granulated, at its end.

Species

Species within the genus Bathymophila include:

Species brought into synonymy

References

  1. ↑ Dall (1881). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 9: 102.
  2. 1 2 Bathymophila. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 May 2012.
  3. ↑ Tryon (1889), Manual of Conchology XI, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
  4. ↑ Bathymophila aages Vilvens, 2009. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  5. ↑ Bathymophila asphala Marshall, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  6. ↑ Bouchet, P. (2010). Bathymophila callomphala (Schepman, 1908). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=547333 on 2011-03-22
  7. ↑ Bathymophila gravida Marshall, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  8. ↑ Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896, Dragages effectue par l'Hirondelle et la Princess Alice. 479-480, pl.20, figs.13,14; Memoires de la Societe Zoologique de France v. 9
  9. ↑ Bathymophila valentia Marshall, 1999. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.
  10. ↑ Dall 1881, Preliminary Report of dredgings by USS Blake 44, 102; Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College v. 9 p. 1-144
  11. ↑ Bathymophila tenorioi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 22 April 2010.