Genus Batillipes Richters, 1909

Diagnosis. The generic diagnosis is the same as that for the family.

Type-species. Batillipes mirus Richters, 1909

Additional 25 species: Batillipes acaudatus Pollock, 1971; B. adriaticus Grimaldi de Zio, Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi, 1979; B. africanus Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988; B. annulatus de Zio, 1962; B. bullacaudatus McGinty & Higgins, 1968; B. carnonensis Fize, 1957; B. caudatus Hay, 1917; B. crassipes Tchesunov & Mokievsky, 1995; B. dicrocercus Pollock, 1970; B. friaufi Riggin, 1962; B. gilmartini McGinty, 1969; B. lesteri Kristensen & Mackness, 2000; B. littoralis Renaud-Debyser, 1959; B. longispinosus Chang & Rho, 1997; B. marcelli Morone De Lucia, D’Addabbo Gallo & Grimaldi de Zio, 1988; B. noerrevangi Kristensen, 1978; B. orientalis Chang & Rho, 1997; B. pennaki Marcus, 1946; B. philippinensis Chang & Rho, 1997; B. phreaticus Renaud-Debyser, 1959; B. roscoffensis Kristensen, 1978; B. rotundiculus Rho, Min & Chang, 1999; B. similis Schulz, 1955; B. spinicauda Gallo D’Addobbo, Sandulli & de Zio Grimaldi, 2005; B. tridentatus Pollock, 1989; B. tubernatis Pollock, 1971

Remarks. See the discussion of the status of the type-species Batillipes mirus in Kristensen & Mackness (2000). Batillipes caudatus was incorrectly synonymised with B. mirus by Marcus (1929) and is still recognized as a junior synonym by Guidetti and Bertolani (2005).