Bathymodiolus


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 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. They include:
  • Bathymodiolus heretaunga Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins & Alfaro, 2010
  • Bathymodiolus inouei Amano & Jenkins, 2011
  • Bathymodiolus palmarensis Kiel, Campbell & Gaillard, 2010