Bathymodiolus
| Bathymodiolus | |
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| Bathymodiolus childressi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Bivalvia |
| Subclass: | Pteriomorphia |
| Order: | Mytiloida |
| Family: | Mytilidae |
| Genus: |
Bathymodiolus Kenk & Wilson, 1985 |
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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.
Modern (non-fossil) species within the genus Bathymodiolus include:
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:
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