{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Bathybembix bairdii 1.jpg | image_caption = Apertural view of shell of ''Bathybembix bairdii'' (Dall, 1889) with operculum | taxon = Bathybembix | authority = Crosse, 1893{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}} | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = *''Bembix'' <small>Watson, 1879</small> <small>(Invalid)</small> }}
'''''Bathybembix''''' is a genus of deep-water sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Calliotropidae.<ref name="WoRMS">{{WRMS species|196986|''Bathybembix'' Crosse, 1893||8 September 2025}}</ref>
This genus was originally called ''Bembix'' by Robert B. Watson (,<ref>Watson, Journ. Linn. Soc. London 1879 vol. 14 p. 603</ref> but as this was a junior homonym of ''Bembix'' <small>Fabricius, 1775</small> [Hymenoptera], it was declared invalid. It was renamed in 1893 by Crosse as ''Bathybembix'' <ref>Crosse, Journ. de Conchyl. 1893, vol. 40 p. 288</ref>
==Description== The shell has a conical shape with a high spire. It is carinated and umbilicated. The base of the shell is inflated. The shell is covered with a thin, extremely persistent, smooth, fibrous epidermis, The epidermis swells up and becomes pustulated in water. The axis of the shell is perforated, and the columella is thin, reverted, and merely angulated in front.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/journaloflinnean14187779linn Watson R. B. (1878-1883). Mollusca of H. M. S. Challenger Expedition. Journal of the Linnean Society of London]</ref>
==Species== Species within the genus ''Bathybembix'' include:<ref name="WoRMS" /> * ''Bathybembix abyssorum'' <small>(Smith, 1891)</small> * ''Bathybembix aeola'' <small>(Watson, 1879)</small> * ''Bathybembix bairdii'' <small>(Dall, 1889)</small> * ''Bathybembix delicatula'' <small>Dall, 1990</small><ref>{{WRMS species|197056|''Bathybembix delicatula'' Dell, 1990||1 May 2010}}</ref> * ''Bathybembix drakei'' <small>Dall, 1990</small><ref>{{WRMS species|197057|''Bathybembix drakei'' Dell, 1990||1 May 2010}}</ref> * ''Bathybembix galapagana'' <small>(Dall, 1908)</small> * ''Bathybembix humboldti'' <small>Rehder, 1971</small> * ''Bathybembix macdonaldi'' <small>(Dall, 1890)</small> ;Species brought into synonymy: * ''Bathybembix ceratophora'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small> accepted as ''Calliotropis ceratophora'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small> * B''athybembix equatorialis'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small> accepted as ''Calliotropis equatorialis'' <small>(Dall, 1896)</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} * Watson R. B. (1878-1883). ''Mollusca of H. M. S. Challenger Expedition''. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 14: 506–529, 586–605, 692-716 [1878-1879]; 15: 87–126, 217–230, 245, 274, 388, 412, 413–455, 457, 475 [1880-1881]; 16: 247–254, 324–343, 358–372, 373–392, 494-611 [1882-1883]; 17: 26–40, 112–130, 284–293, 319–340, 341-346 * Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Dekker H. (2006) ''The Seguenziidae, Chilodontidae, Trochidae, Calliostomatidae and Solariellidae of the Philippine Islands''. Visaya Supplement 2: 1–228. page(s): 55
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Category:Bathybembix Category:Gastropod genera Category:Taxa named by Joseph Charles Hippolyte Crosse