Bathyacmaea Temporal range: |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
(unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
Family: | Pectinodontidae |
Genus: |
Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 |
Type species | |
Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 |
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.
Species within the genus Bathyacmaea include: