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.
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| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda
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| Genus: | Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 [1]
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| Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 | |
Species
editSpecies within the genus Bathyacmaea include:[2]
- Bathyacmaea becki S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2017
- Bathyacmaea jonassoni Beck, 1996
- Bathyacmaea kanesunosensis (Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003)
- † Bathyacmaea kimberleyae (Saether, C. Little, B. A. Marshall & K. C. Campbell, 2012)
- Bathyacmaea lactea S. Q. Zhang, J. L. Zhang & S. P. Zhang, 2016
- Bathyacmaea nadinae L. Beck, 2023
- Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
- Bathyacmaea subnipponica Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
- Synonyms
- Bathyacmaea austrina S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2020 synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 (junior subjective synonym)
- Bathyacmaea brevidentata S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2020: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 (junior subjective synonym)
- Bathyacmaea secunda Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
- Bathyacmaea tertia Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
References
edit- ^ 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
- ^ 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
- Chen C. & Sigwart J.D. , 2023. - The lost vent gastropod species of Lothar A. Beck. Zootaxa 5270(3): 401-436