''Bathysciadium'' is a
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of
sea snail
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limpet
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s,
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gastropod
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s in the
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Bathysciadiidae
Bathysciadiidae is a family of sea snails, deep-sea limpets, marine gastropod mollusks in the clade Cocculiniformia (according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005). MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Bathysciadiidae ...
.
Species
Species within the genus ''Bathysciadium'' include:
* ''
Bathysciadium concentricum'' Dall, 1927
* ''
Bathysciadium costulatum
''Bathysciadium costulatum'' is a species of sea snail, deep-sea limpet, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Bathysciadiidae.
Distribution
* European waters
Description
The maximum recorded shell
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'' (Locard, 1898)
* ''
Bathysciadium pacificum'' Dall, 1908
* ''
Bathysciadium rotundum'' (Dall, 1927)
* ''
Bathysciadium xylophagum'' Warén & Carrozzza in Warén, 1997
References
External links
Bathysciadiidae
Gastropod genera
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