Bathybembix
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| Bathybembix | |
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| Apertural view of shell of Bathybembix bairdii (Dall, 1889) with operculum | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Family: | Calliotropidae |
| Genus: | Bathybembix Crosse, 1893 |
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Bathybembix is a genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calliotropidae.[1]
This genus was originally called Bembix by Robert B. Watson (,[2] but as this was a junior homonym of Bembix Fabricius, 1775 [Hymenoptera], it was declared invalid. It was renamed in 1893 by Crosse as Bathybembix [3]