Pachybathron Explained

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

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)^[1]
• Pachybathron olssoni Wakefield, Boyer & McCleery, 2002^[2]
• Pachybathron tayrona Díaz & Velásquez, 1987^[3]

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

• 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.

Notes and References

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