''Bathyacmaea'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

of deep-sea

limpet Limpets are a group of aquatic snails that exhibit a conical shell shape (patelliform) and a strong, muscular foot. Limpets are members of the class Gastropoda, but are polyphyletic, meaning the various groups called "limpets" descended indep ...

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gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ...

mollusk Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is e ...

in the family

Pectinodontidae Pectinodontidae is a family of sea snails or true limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily Lottioidea, the true limpets. Lottioidea Taxonomy This family was previously ranked as subfamily Pectinodontinae (also with Acmaeinae a ...

. Species in this genus inhabit the dark, chemosynthesis-based marine communities of ocean vents and

cold seep A cold seep (sometimes called a cold vent) is an area of the ocean floor where hydrogen sulfide, methane and other hydrocarbon-rich fluid seepage occurs, often in the form of a brine pool. ''Cold'' does not mean that the temperature of the see ...

s near Japan.

Species

Species within the genus ''Bathyacmaea'' include: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 * '' Bathyacmaea jonassoni'' Beck, 1996 * '' Bathyacmaea lactea'' S. Q. Zhang, J. L. Zhang & S. P. Zhang, 2016 * '' Bathyacmaea nipponica'' Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 * ''

Bathyacmaea secunda ''Bathyacmaea secunda'' is a species of very small (adults are typically about 6 mm in length), deep-sea true limpet, limpet, a marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusk in the family Pectinodontidae. This species inhabits the dark, chemosynt ...

'' Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993 * '' Bathyacmaea subnipponica'' Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003 * '' Bathyacmaea tertia'' Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003

References

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