Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Pteriomorphia > Order Mytilida > Superfamily Mytiloidea > Family Modiolidae > Subfamily Bathymodiolinae

Gigantidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Gigantidas mauritanicus (Cosel, 2002)

Literature

original description

Cosel, R. von & Marshall, B. A. (2003). Two new species of large mussels (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from active submarine volcanoes and a cold seep off the eastern North Island of New Zealand, with description of a new genus. The Nautilus. 117 (2): 31-46.

additional source

Thubaut, J., Puillandre, N., Faure, B., Cruaud, C. & Samadi, S. (2013). The contrasted evolutionary fates of deep-sea chemosynthetic mussels (Bivalvia, Bathymodiolinae). Ecology and Evolution.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gigantidas Cosel & B. A. Marshall, 2003. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391122

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2020-06-30 by Maxim Vinarski

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