Pachybathron

Pachybathron is a genus of very small sea snails, marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the subfamily Cystiscinae of the family Cystiscidae.^[1]

Pachybathron
Shell of Pachybathron guadeloupense (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Cystiscidae
Subfamily:	Cystiscinae
Genus:	Pachybathron Gaskoin, 1853
Type species
Pachybathron cassidiforme Gaskoin, 1853

Species

Species within the genus Pachybathron include:

• Pachybathron cassidiforme Gaskoin, 1853
• Pachybathron cypraeoides (Adams, 1845)
• Pachybathron guadeloupense Boyer & Lamy, 2014
• Pachybathron kienerianum (Petit de la Saussaye, 1838)^[2]
• Pachybathron olssoni Wakefield, Boyer & McCleery, 2002^[3]
• Pachybathron tayrona Díaz & Velásquez, 1987^[4]

Synonym:

• Pachybathron guadeloupensis Boyer & Lamy, 2014: synonym of Pachybathron guadeloupense Boyer & Lamy, 2014 (wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
• Pachybathron marginelloideum Gaskoin, 1853: synonym of Pachybathron cypraeoides (Adams, 1845)

References

1. Pachybathron Gaskoin, 1853. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 30 December 2011.
2. Petit de la Saussaye, S. (1838). "Description de trois espèces nouvelles des genres Carocolle, Pleurotome et Marginelle. Revue . ():". Zoologique, par la Société Cuviérienne. 1838. Retrieved 4 July 2020.
3. Wakefield, A.; Boyer, F.; McCleery, T. (2002). "Review of the genus Pachybathron Gaskoin, 1853 (Gastropoda: Cystiscidae)". Novapex. 3 (2–3): 65–81.
4. Díaz, J. M.; Velásquez, L. E. (1987). "A new species of Pachybathron from the Caribbean coast of Colombia (Prosobranchia: Marginellidae)". Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 117 (4/6): 217–221.

• Paulmier G. (1997). Trois mollusques nouveaux du plateau insulaire martiniquais. Annales de la Société des Sciences Naturelles de la Charente-Maritime. 8(6): 733-748.