Bathymophila
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| Bathymophila | |
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| Bathymophila micans shell | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Solariellidae |
| Genus: | Bathymophila Dall, 1881[1] |
| Type species | |
| Margarites euspira Dall, 1881 | |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Bathymophila is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Solariellidae.[2]
Previously Bathymophila was brought under the subfamily Margaritinae, because of the resemblance of its shell with Margarites Gray, 1847
