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, 1998Bathymodiolus japonicus Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994Bathymodiolus marisindicus Hashimoto, 2001Bathymodiolus platifrons Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994Bathymodiolus septemdierum Hashimoto & Okutani, 1994Bathymodiolus tangaroa Von Cossel & Marshall, 2003Bathymodiolus thermophilus Kenk & Wilson, 1985Bathymodiolus boomerang Cosel & Olu, 1998There 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 (sensu lato) heretaunga Saether, Little, Campbell, Marshall, Collins & Alfaro, 2010Bathymodiolus (sensu lato) inouei Amano & Jenkins, 2011Bathymodiolus palmarensis Kiel, Campbell & Gaillard, 2010