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Bathyacmaea Temporal range: |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| (unranked): | clade Patellogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Lottioidea |
| Family: | Pectinodontidae |
| Genus: |
Bathyacmaea Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 |
| Type species | |
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Bathyacmaea nipponica Okutani, Tsuchida & Fujikura, 1992 |
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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 within the genus Bathyacmaea include: