title: Bathyacmaea
text: # Bathyacmaea
  
  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.
  
  ## Species
  
  Species within the genus Bathyacmaea include:
  
  * Bathyacmaea becki S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2017
  * Bathyacmaea jonassoni Beck, 1996
  * Bathyacmaea kanesunosensis (Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003)
  * † Bathyacmaea kimberleyae (Saether, C. Little, B. A. Marshall & K. C. Campbell, 2012)
  * Bathyacmaea lactea S. Q. Zhang, J. L. Zhang & S. P. Zhang, 2016
  * Bathyacmaea nadinae L. Beck, 2023
  * Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
  * Bathyacmaea subnipponica Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003
  
  ### Synonyms
  
  * Bathyacmaea austrina S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2020 synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 (junior subjective synonym)
  * Bathyacmaea brevidentata S.-Q. Zhang & S.-P. Zhang, 2020: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 (junior subjective synonym)
  * Bathyacmaea secunda Okutani, Fujikura & Sasaki, 1993: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
  * Bathyacmaea tertia Sasaki, Okutani & Fujikura, 2003: synonym of Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992
  