Bathyacmaea
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| Bathyacmaea Temporal range: | |
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| Shell of Bathyacmaea nadinae (holotype at MNHN, Paris) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Patellogastropoda |
| Family: | Pectinodontidae |
| Genus: | Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992[1] |
| 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.