original description
Foster, M. W. (1974). Recent Antarctic and Subantarctic brachiopods. <em>American Geophysical Union, Antarctic Research Series.</em> 21:189 p., 39 fig., 25 pl. [details]
basis of record
Logan, A. (2007). Geographic distribution of extant articulated brachiopods. <em>In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part H, Brachiopoda (revised), vol.6, 3082–3115. Geological Society of America, Boulder, Colorado, and University of Kansas Press, Lawrence, Kansas.</em> [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology Genus name 'Bathynanus' derived from the Greek 'bathys (= deep) and 'nanos' (= dwarf). [details]