Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Protobranchia > Order Nuculanida > Superfamily Nuculanoidea > Family Bathyspinulidae

Bathyspinula J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Spinula*	Dall, 1908	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Leda (Spinula)*	Dall, 1908	synonym
*Spinula (Bathyspinula)*	J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982	synonym

Children

Bathyspinula excisa (R. A. Philippi, 1844)
Bathyspinula filatovae (Knudsen, 1967)
Bathyspinula hilleri (J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982)
Bathyspinula subexcisa (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897)

Literature

original description	Allen, J. A.; Sanders, H. L. (1982). Studies on deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia). The subfamily Spinulinae (Family Nuculanidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard. 150(1): 1-30.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
redescription	Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
status source	La Perna, R. (2008). Revision of the protobranch species described by Dautzenberg and Fischer (1897) with description of a new species and taxonomic comments on Bathyspinula (Bivalvia, Nuculanoidea). The Veliger. 50(2), 149-162.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bathyspinula J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138516