Bathymodiolus
Genus of bivalves
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Bathymodiolus is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts.
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| Bathymodiolus childressi | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Order: | Mytilida |
| Family: | Modiolidae |
| Genus: | Bathymodiolus Kenk & Wilson, 1985[1] |
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Species
Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus Bathymodiolus include:
- Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Lutz, Turner & Vrijenhoek, 1998
- Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
- Bathymodiolus marisindicus Hashimoto, 2001
- Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
- Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
- Bathymodiolus tangaroa Von Cossel & Marshall, 2003
- Bathymodiolus thermophilus Kenk & Wilson, 1985
- Bathymodiolus boomerang Cosel & Olu, 1998
There also are several fossil species, which are usually only tentatively assigned to hydrothermal vent and hydrocarbon seep-inhabiting mussel genera due to their conservative shell morphology and ongoing taxonomic revision of this group.[2] They include:
- Bathymodiolus (sensu lato) heretaunga Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins & Alfaro, 2010
- Bathymodiolus (sensu lato) inouei Amano & Jenkins, 2011
- Bathymodiolus palmarensis Kiel, Campbell & Gaillard, 2010
