Bayerotrochus

Bayerotrochus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pleurotomariidae.^[1]

Bayerotrochus
Apertural view with operculum of a shell of Bayerotrochus westralis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Pleurotomariida
Family:	Pleurotomariidae
Genus:	Bayerotrochus Harasewych, 2002
Type species
Perotrochus midas Bayer, 1965
Species
See text

The generic name Bayerotrochus is in honor of marine biologist Frederick Bayer.^[2]

The shells of the snails in this genus show a selenizone.

Species

Species within the genus Bayerotrochus include:^[1]

• Bayerotrochus africanus (Tomlin, 1948)
• Bayerotrochus boucheti (Anseeuw & Poppe, 2001)
• Bayerotrochus charlestonensis (Askew, 1988)
• Bayerotrochus diluculum (Okutani, 1979)
• Bayerotrochus indicus (Anseeuw, 1999)
• Bayerotrochus midas (Bayer, 1966)^[3]
• Bayerotrochus philpoppei Anseeuw, Poppe & Goto, 2006^[4]
• Bayerotrochus poppei Anseeuw, 2003^[5]
• Bayerotrochus pyramus (Bayer, 1967)
• Bayerotrochus quiquandoni Cossignani, 2018^[6]
• Bayerotrochus tangaroanus (Bouchet & Métivier, 1982)
• Bayerotrochus teramachii (Kuroda, 1955)
• Bayerotrochus westralis (Whitehead, 1987)