''Bathymodiolus'' is a

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of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family

Mytilidae Mytilidae are a family of small to large marine and brackish-water bivalve molluscs in the order Mytilida. One of the genera, '' Limnoperna'', even inhabits freshwater environments. The order has only this one family which contains some 52 gener ...

. 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 ''Bathymodiolus'' is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracelluar chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts. Species Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus ''Bathymodiolus'' in ...

'' Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 * ''

Bathymodiolus marisindicus ''Bathymodiolus marisindicus'' is a species of deepwater hydrothermal vent mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk species in the family Mytilidae, the mussels. This species is found in the Indian Ocean. Description In this species of ''Bathymodiolus'' ...

'' Hashimoto, 2001 * ''

Bathymodiolus platifrons ''Bathymodiolus platifrons'', described by Hashimoto and Okutani in 1994, is a deep-sea mussel that is common in hydrothermal vents and methane seeps in the Western Pacific Ocean. Symbiosis ''Bathymodiolus platifrons'' harbours methane-oxidizing ...

'' Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 * ''

Bathymodiolus septemdierum ''Bathymodiolus'' is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracelluar chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts. Species Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus ''Bathymodiolus'' in ...

'' Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994 * ''

Bathymodiolus tangaroa ''Gigantidas tangaroa'' is a species of deep-sea mussel, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Mytilidae, the mussels. MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Gigantidas tangaroa (Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003). Accessed through: World Register o ...

'' Von Cossel & Marshall, 2003 * '' Bathymodiolus thermophilus'' Kenk & Wilson, 1985 There also are several

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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.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. They include: * ''

Bathymodiolus (sensu lato) heretaunga ''Bathymodiolus'' is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts. Species Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus ''Bathymodiolus'' i ...

'' Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins & Alfaro, 2010 * ''

Bathymodiolus (sensu lato) inouei ''Bathymodiolus'' is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts. Species Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus ''Bathymodiolus'' ...

'' Amano & Jenkins, 2011 * ''

Bathymodiolus palmarensis ''Bathymodiolus'' is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracelluar chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts. Species Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus ''Bathymodiolus'' in ...

'' Kiel, Campbell & Gaillard, 2010 Bathymodiolus thermophilus

References

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