Bathymophila

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

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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

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