Anseeuw, Patrick, Bell, Lori J., and Harasewych, M. G. 2017. "Bayerotrochus belauensis, a new species of pleurotomariid from the Palau Islands, western Pacific (Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae)." Nautilus, 131, (2) 138–146.
A new pleurotomariid species, Bayerotrochus belauensis new species, collected from the Palau Islands, western Pacific, is described and illustrated. This new species is most similar in shell morphology to B. teramachii (Kuroda, 1955), from which it may be distinguished by its thinner, lighter shell with a taller, more stepped spire and lack of pronounced spiral sculpture along the shell base. Molecular data (COI) show B. belauensis new species to be more closely related to B. boucheti from New Caledonia and B. delicatus from Yap, than to B. teramachii. Bayerotrochus boucheti (Anseeuw and Poppe, 2001) differs in having a broader, more conical spire, a more depressed aperture, and a more darkly pigmented shell with spiral sculpture on the shell base. The recently described B. delicatus S.-P. Zhang, S.Q. Zhang, and Wei, 2016 is easily distinguished by its much smaller size and distinctive shell profile.
