Bathymodiolinae

Saether, Kristian P., Little, Crispin T. S., Campbell, Kathleen A., Marshall, Bruce A., Collins, Mike & Alfaro, Andrea 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, pp. 1-45 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.197498
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5662448
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scientific name	Bathymodiolinae
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Subfamily Bathymodiolinae Kenk and Wilson, 1985

Discussion. Vent and seep mussels of the genera Bathymodiolus , Gigantidas and Tamu traditionally have been referred to a subfamily Bathymodiolinae Kenk and Wilson, 1985 (e.g. Cosel and Janssen 2008), although as indicated by Samadi et al. (2007), on molecular evidence the group is “robustly rooted within a monophyletic group that includes the species Modiolus modiolus ...”, i.e. subfamily Modiolinae Keen, 1958 . Thus, Bathymodiolinae would appear to be a grade of Modiolinae comprising several clades, each probably independently derived from small wood-associated ancestors ( Distel 2000; Fujita et al. 2009). Re-evaluation of the higher classification of mytilids is not our intention, and we consider it appropriate and convenient to refer to these mussels as bathymodiolines.

References

Samadi, S., Quemere, E., Lorion, J., Tillier, A., Cosel, R. von, Lopez, P., Cruaud, C., Couloux, A. & Boisselier-Dubayle, M. - C. (2007) Molecular phylogeny in mytilids supports the wooden steps to deep-sea vents hypothesis. Comptes Rendus Biologies, 330, 446 - 456.

Cosel, R. von & Janssen, R. (2008) Bathymodioline mussels of the Bathymodiolus (s. l.) childressi clade from methane seeps near Edison Seamount, New Ireland, Papua New Guinea (Bivalvia: Mytilidae). Archiv fur Molluskenkunde, 137, 195 - 224.

Distel, D., Baco, A. R., Chuang, E., Morrill, W., Cavanaugh, C. & Smith, C. R. (2000) Do mussels take wooden steps to deep-sea vents? Nature, 403, 725 - 726.

Fujita, Y., Matsumoto, H., Fujiwara, Y., Hashimoto, J., Galkin, S. V., Ueshima, R. & Miyazaki, J. - I. (2009) Phylogenetic relationships of deep-sea Bathymodiolus mussels to their mytilid relatives from sunken whale carcasses and wood. Venus, 67, 123 - 134.

Keen, A. M. (1958) Marine shells of tropical West America. Stanford University Press, Stanford, 624 pp.

Kenk, V. C. & Wilson, B. R. (1985) A new mussel (Bivalvia, Mytilidae) from hydrothermal vents in the Galapagos Rift zone. Malacologia, 26, 253 - 271.