Bathybembix
Sign in to saveBathybembix is a genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calliotropidae.
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderSeguenziida
- FamilyCalliotropidae
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Bathybembix is a genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calliotropidae.
This genus was originally called Bembix by Robert B. Watson (, 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