Bathymodiolus

Bathymodiolus
Bathymodiolus childressi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Bivalvia
Subclass:	Pteriomorphia
Order:	Mytiloida
Family:	Mytilidae
Genus:	Bathymodiolus Kenk & Wilson, 1985[1]
Species
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Bathymodiolus is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve mollusks in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracelluar chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts.

Species

Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus Bathymodiolus include:

• Bathymodiolus childressi Gustafson, Lutz, Turner & Vrijenhoek, 1998
• Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
• Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
• Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994
• Bathymodiolus tangaroa Von Cossel & Marshall, 2003
• Bathymodiolus thermophilus Kenk & Wilson, 1985
• Bathymodiolus marisindicus HASHIMOTO, 2001

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

Bathymodiolus thermophilus

References

1. Kenk, V.C. & Wilson, B.R., 1985. A new mussel (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from hydrothermal vents in the Galapagos Rift zone. Malacologia, 26 (1-2), 253-271.
2. Saether, K.P., Little, C.T.S., Campbell, K.A., Marshall, B.A., Collins, M. & Alfaro, A.C. 2010. New fossil mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from Miocene hydrocarbon seep deposits, North Island, New Zealand, with general remarks on vent and seep mussels. Zootaxa, 2577: 1-45.