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[1]
Type species
Margarites euspira Dall, 1881
Species
See text
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

Description

The shell has a broad flattened columella, which has a blunt tooth, rough or granulated, at its end.^[3]

Species

Species within the genus Bathymophila include:

• Bathymophila aages Vilvens, 2009^[4]
• Bathymophila alabida (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Bathymophila asphala Marshall, 1999^[5]
• Bathymophila bairdii (Dall, 1889)
• Bathymophila callomphala (Schepman, 1908)^[6]
• Bathymophila dawsoni (B. A. Marshall, 1979)
• Bathymophila diadema (B. A. Marshall, 1999)
• Bathymophila euspira (Dall, 1881)
• Bathymophila gravida Marshall, 1999^[7]
• Bathymophila micans (Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1896) ^[8]
• Bathymophila valentia Marshall, 1999^[9]

Species brought into synonymy

• Bathymophila nitens (Dall, 1881):^[10] synonym of Bathymophila euspira (Dall, 1881)
• Bathymophila tenorioi Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006:^[11] synonym of Arxellia tenorioi (Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006) (original combination)

References

1. Dall (1881). Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool. Harvard 9: 102.
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.

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