Bathymodiolus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Class
- Bivalvia
- Order
- Mytilida
- Family
- Mytilidae
- Genus
- Bathymodiolus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Bathymodiolus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Bathymodiolus
Bathymodiolus is a genus of deep-sea mussels, marine bivalve molluscs in the family Mytilidae. Many of them contain intracellular chemoautotrophic bacterial symbionts.
...Bathymodiolus in languages:
- Japanese
- シンカイヒバリガイ属
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Bathymodiolus aduloides
- Bathymodiolus antarcticus
- Bathymodiolus anteumbonatus
- Bathymodiolus azoricus
- Bathymodiolus boomerang
- Bathymodiolus brooksi
- Bathymodiolus edisonensis
- Bathymodiolus elongatus
- Bathymodiolus heckerae
- Bathymodiolus hirtus
- Bathymodiolus japonicus
- Bathymodiolus manusensis
- Bathymodiolus puteoserpentis
- Bathymodiolus securiformis
- Bathymodiolus septemdierum
- Bathymodiolus thermophilus